Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...version of "The check's in the mail." Banks sometimes force customers to wait as long as a month to make sure that deposited checks do not bounce. But Congress moved closer last week to ending this widespread practice, which House Banking Committee Chairman Fernand St Germain calls a "shell game...
...other hand, every city has its own annoyances as well. Cities are by nature crowded, polluted, and crime-ridden, and inhabitants are expected to shell out exorbitant rents to live there. Nevertheless, most jobs are to be found in the city, so the prospective employee must try to make the best of it. To help you out, I have prepared an updated 1987 edition of the Michelin/Rutger Fury Guide to Metropolitan Living...
Harvard's junior varsity was more than solid. The Crimson shell dueled with Princeton for 1200 meters, trading narrow leads several times before breaking the Tigers spirit, sprinting away to a three-second victory. The winning time...
...many atoms, particularly those of metallic conductors, the outer shell has a number of empty slots, and the electrons that it does contain are not bound as tightly to it as those in the inner shells. Just as the sun's gravitational pull is weaker on distant Pluto than on nearby Mercury, the hold of an atomic nucleus is also weaker on electrons in the outermost layers...
...while, I figured the quickest way to get rich was to start a group to compete with the Class Gift and the Endowment for Divestiture. As long as seniors were opening their pocketbooks for these institutions, they could probably shell out a few more dollars for The Endowment for John N. Rosenthal...