Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...penny is a casualty of inflation; people do not want to be bothered with it. Though an estimated 40 billion pennies are supposed to be in circulation; millions are removed each year as they pile up in dresser drawers and Mason jars. The more that are withdrawn, the more the Government has to mint so that merchants will be assured a steady supply. The report estimates that by 1990 the mint will have to turn out 37 billion pennies a year (compared with 9 billion today); by then, the cost of manufacturing a penny will be about 1.5?, more than...
That boycott has had little impact on contributions from members of the Class of 1976, Wilson H. Pile, secretary of alumni affairs, said yesterday...
...subject to arrest if they entered the site. One television camera crew covered the events with gas masks hanging in sacks from their shoulders. The Real Paper staff--a former vanguard of the counterculture--appeared less concerned. They arrived in a Winnebago mobile home covered inside with thick pile carpeting and empty Budweiser cans...
What a pair of demons Strindberg has mated here. An embittered captain of Swedish artillery and his frustrated wife, a former actress, are serving out time on a rock-pile island outpost. As their 25th anniversary approaches, they have perfected the purest hatred for each other. Like the most passionately obsessed lovers, they live in a universe where nobody else exists. The only other character in the play, the wife's cousin, who introduced them, serves merely as a catalyst to their anti-chemistry...
...chief monster woman, Dede Cooper (Estelle Parsons), is a pioneer zealot of regional theater, and she has nursed the Alamo into its present quarters, a huge Gothic pile. Dede can squash mountains as though they were bugs, but she has a doughty foe in a widowed moneybags named Joanne Remington (Rosemary Murphy), who believes that when money talks, Dede should shut up. Joanne's plan is to install a codirector, Shirley Fuller (Jan Farrand), who will siphon off Dede's authority...