Word: tokening
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...made economic sense as a loss leader because it lured customers to gamble was changing. More and more people were going to the hotels to watch the high-priced floor show, eat the $2 steak dinner, enjoy the elegant $8-a-day hotel room, and maybe drop a few token coins in the slot machines (5% profit for the house). Last June most of the hotels were forced to alter a longstanding policy, and charge a $2 minimum for the midnight supper shows that guests could once see by sitting at a table and ordering a soft drink. Said Riviera...
...have a heart, all of you would be dead." An old Caid in flowing robes made the surrender speech: "If this happens again, may you come back and decimate our tribe!" With that, tribesmen slashed the legs of twelve sacrificial bulls, and the beasts sank to their knees in token of abject submission. "Blood is spilled," chanted the Berbers. "Peace returns...
...similar token. Sinatra is doggedly independent. "Don't tell me!" he often tells friends, eyes blazing, as he jabs them with a forefinger. "Suggest. But don't tell me." "Why, he might even vote Republican," one friend surmised, "if I told him to vote Democrat." A friend tells how Frankie walked out on the christening of his son because the priest would not let him have the godfather Frankie wanted, who happened...
...taxes on it. But his salary is only the beginning. He may get another $100 a week cash from a secret "expense" fund which many Japanese companies maintain. At night he rides home in a company-owned car, for his company-owned house he pays a token $5 to $10 monthly rent, his wife buys her clothes on a company charge account, the family food comes from company cafeterias, his son goes to college on a company scholarship...
...power production, potentially the most promising avenue of all, current-producing reactors are already running in the U.S., Britain and Russia. At West Milton, N.Y., a reactor is feeding the first power-a token amount-into commercial use. The day is not distant when atomic power will be cheap enough and abundant enough to heat whole cities...