Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nations. A top State Department official insisted that the U.S. "made every possible effort and then some" to strike a compromise, but gave up after most of the other nations refused to budge. The U.S. mining industry, which anticipates a rich haul of minerals such as manganese, cobalt and nickel from the seabed, was elated. Proclaimed Jeffry Amsbaugh, president of Ocean Mining Associates, a Virginia-based consortium: "It's just not a good deal...
...London Metal Exchange, housed in a grand stone edifice on Fenchurch Street, exudes an air of ultramodern, professional efficiency. The 29 brokers sit in a circle on red leather banquettes surrounding the marble trading floor and make bids on seven metals (copper, lead, zinc, aluminum, nickel, tin and silver). For the past eight months, however, the exchange has been in turmoil. While prices for other commodities have been falling, the price of tin has been rising steeply. Since July, it has shot up nearly 30%, to more than...
...like to pump her nickel...
...flourish nonetheless. There is no smart little outfit that has tapped into a new style or audience. No big company has been totally successful at using their 20-megaton talent to fend off the incursions of recession. "Record sales are flat," says an industry executive. "Everybody is making a nickel or a dime, but nobody is making millions...
...same time, the traditional locations for the machines are vanishing. Malt shops and drugstore counters, where people used to put another nickel in so that the music would go round and round, have been hurt by fast-food franchises, which have little use for music. Says Leo Droste, executive vice president of the Amusement and Music Operators Association: "When I was in high school, you could walk into any drugstore and there would be counter machines where you could flip through the choices, look at the records, put in your money, and hear the music. You don't find...