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Already such corporate giants as General Motors, Gulf Oil, International Nickel, Pepsico and Texaco have adopted variants of the performance-shares idea. At annual meetings this spring, shareholders of such other firms as Aetna Life & Casualty, Continental Telephone Corp., First National City Corp. and R.R. Donnelly & Sons also are being asked to vote their approval to some form of the plan...
...spokesman from the National Council of Churches said that marijuana is a "nickel and dime" affair compared to the dangers of alcoholic beverages...
Last year, Boston's residents and businesses sent $2.2 billion to Washington in taxes, but our direct return will be cut in half--our loss will be $100 million. Our direct return on the federal tax dollar then, will be cut from a dime, to less than a nickel...
Like Dickens, Alger loved this world despite all the cruelty and cor ruption. His Wall Street district scenes give off a certain jolly hum. He describes a midtown brownstone as if his nose were pressed against the window. Writing of nickel rides on the el or six-course meals (wine included) for 75?, he exudes a kind of festivity...
...date, though, even Hammer claims only one hard deal: an agreement to barter $40 million worth of U.S. machinery for Soviet nickel over the next five years. That works out to a not overly impressive $8,000,000 a year. The only exchange that he has already concluded involved neither money nor commercial products but art works. He donated a Goya portrait to the Hermitage museum in Leningrad and received in return an abstract painting by Kasimir Malevich, whose work is in such deep disfavor among Soviet officials that it has not been exhibited in more than 40 years...