Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, panhandlers who prefer real money can simply increase begging in neighborhoods without vouchers. Steward, however, is standing pat. He has no intention of leaving his coveted spot atop a steam grate and appreciates the $5 worth of vouchers he has received so far. "But to tell you the truth," he adds sheepishly, "I'd rather have the cash...
...spoon them up through gun buybacks or givebacks. Operation Cease-fire in Denver encourages people to turn in guns to the police, no questions asked, for tickets to Nuggets, Broncos and Rockies games or tickets to the Museum of Natural History. But buybacks tend to run out of steam and over budget. Minnesota's Hennepin County, which offered $50 a gun, spent more than $300,000 last year to collect 6,100 firearms. Even at that price, buybacks don't offer much incentive for criminals whose guns are more valuable as tools of the trade...
...progressive, forward-looking Americans, happy days are indeed on the way. The economy is picking up steam as we enter the holiday season; last month, the unemployment rate took its largest single-month dip in over a decade. Inflation has, nevertheless, remained low. We have a president hard at work attacking the problems in our society on all fronts. And there is a palpable sense, however halting, that America is moving forward again...
...steam tunnels are not the University's only tunnel system. Food tunnels link five river houses to the University's central kitchen, says Michael P. Berry, the director of Harvard Dining Services...
...There are some places where the food and steam tunnels run side by side," Hawkes says. "Obviously you can't carry the food through the steam tunnels...