Word: receipt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reward. It was, said Columbia psychology professor Herbert Terrace, "like using your password to get money from a cash machine." So if an infinite number of monkeys are given an infinite number of ATMs, presumably one of them will eventually withdraw a hundred bucks and remember to get a receipt...
After the lights release the cars from the starting line, they hurtle down the track, leaving shimmering waves of fumes. As they cross the finish line, twin giant billboards flash their time and speed and each racer gets a printed receipt with his (or, pretty rarely, her) time. Bob's personal record for his 1978 Cougar (" a little old-fashioned," he admits) is 12.5 seconds...
...thought, as I drove across the river to give them my machine. I began worrying a week and a half later, when I still had no word on a diagnosis. I started calling. And calling. UIS kept a record of these calls, and the log printed onto the receipt they gave me when I picked up the computer...
...fewer than 100 of Forrest County's 8,000 voting-age blacks were registered. Dahmer would drive neighbors to the courthouse and watch in frustration as the white registrar found reasons to turn them away. Eventually, Dahmer got the sheriff to sign out to him a poll-tax receipt book, and Dahmer announced over the radio that blacks could register at his grocery. "I said, 'I wouldn't do this if I were you,'" recalls J.C. Fairley, a friend and fellow N.A.A.C.P. activist. "'You're out there by yourself--they can easily get to you.'" And they did, the first...
...just licked the stamp and dropped your 1997 tax return in the mailbox--with return receipt requested. But this is no time to nap. The taxman has given you plenty to think about in '98. Now is the time to tune up your strategy or get ground up next April in the wheels of change...