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...each 75 cents issue sold, the salesperson keeps 55 cents, including a nickel that goes into a mandatory savings plan that can be used only to obtain an apartment. Some vendors earn more than $200 a week. After selling 500 papers, the salespeople win a bonus: a winter coat...
...surprisingly, the Faculty Committee attempted to appear progressive while nickel-and-diming the report's recommendations to death...
What gall. If I had a nickel for every time I've paced the gym floor sidelines at the Malkin Athletic Center (Three basketball/volleyball courts for 5500 non-Quad undergraduates) while waiting for balding, middle-aged, brick-shooting B-School b-ball players to clear the courts and get back to their banking, I'd have $18 million of my own to spend...
...billion, 324,000-sq.-mi. Grande Carajas Program, located in the eastern Amazon, seeks to exploit Brazil's mineral deposits, perhaps the world's largest, which include iron ore, manganese, bauxite, copper and nickel. The principal iron-ore mine began production in 1985, and its operation has little impact on the forest. The problem, however, is the smelters that convert the ore into pig iron. They are powered by charcoal, and the cheapest way to obtain it is by chopping down the surrounding forests and burning the trees. Environmentalists fear that Grande Carajas will repeat the dismal experience...
...many homeless people, collecting the deposits on empty beverage containers is not a nickel-and-dime affair -- it's a living. Some redeem 400 or more cans each day, enough to pay for a meal and a night in a flophouse. Last week attorneys for the homeless filed a lawsuit in New York, one of nine states that require deposits, alleging that some of the state's largest supermarket chains have been breaking the law to discourage the scavengers...