Word: nickell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Doris" 3. New Bomb Turks "American Soul Spiders" 4. Bikini Kill "Alien She" 5. Kudgel "Chicken Pump" 6. Royal Trux "Back to School" 7. Rancid Hell Spawn "Eyeball in my Mouth" 8. Boredoms "Bore Now Bore" 9. The Fumes "Empty Cell" 10. The Queers "Bonehead" 11. Fat Day "Choad Nickel" 12. Frances Gumm "So Much of Nothing" 13. Element of Crime "Delinquint Squint" 14. Huggy Bear "Teen Tighterns" 15. Killdozer "The Pig Was Cool" 16. The Lune "The Traveller" 17. Skinned Teen "Punk Rockest" 18. Adickdid "Eye Level" 19. Sparkalepsy "Bong Ammo" 20. Guided By Voices "Stabbing a Star...
...past two years, the University has demonstrated an embarrassing inability to deal fairly with its unionized workers. And throughout the contract negotiations, Harvard administrators have relentlessly nickel-and-dimed those workers. For the University to play hardball with a workforce as vital to the University as its patrol officers is not only outrageous, it is a threat to the safety of the University...
...would like to have a nickel for every time they ask what Harvard's mascot is. It sounds like their making a bet from some bar or something," she says...
...spent 35 of his 54 years in Washington. But he was shaped by blue-collar Brooklyn and nuns that made him toe the line ("If you did something wrong, they hit you"). He was a Flatbush Boys Club boxing champ, such a scrapper that his mother paid him a nickel for each day he didn't get into a fight...
Some academics, including Harvard's own Professor Stephen J. Gould, contend that it's worth putting a nickel into the SETI slot machine even if the odds are immense. There might be a huge payoff, but this is a billion dollar-nickel in times when the nation can least afford...