Word: wallets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time was when monthly bills were simply an affront to one's wallet. Now they can be an assault on the senses as well. Cosmetic and fragrance manufacturers have taken to packing heavily scented promotional material into the envelopes carrying statements from credit-card companies and retailers. Fashion magazines have gone aromatic too, surrounding readers with unsolicited bouquets...
According to police records, the group of four white males approached the student shortly after 1 a.m. The student told police that the four punched and kicked him and then stole his $200 brown leather jacket and a wallet containing $5 in cash...
...jacket of his room-mate, Joshua B. Goldstine '90. The Harvard Police on the scene found a slip of paper in the jacket pocket which had Goldstine's name on it and incorrectly identified Ross as Goldstine, said David J. Buttaro '90, another roommate. "Later...they found his wallet," Buttaro said...
...Amiel has catered this sort of phantasmagoric feast before; he directed Dennis Potter's magnificent TV serial The Singing Detective. Once or twice % Amiel is hobbled by the conflicting demands of a sprawling vision and a thin wallet. The movie starts out of breath and keeps on running. But that's O.K.; in fact, for a couple of hours it's criminally enjoyable. Who would have thought that you could transport three roiling generations of Italians and get Moonstruck in Britain...
...Oregon decided that it would no longer pay for organ transplants for Medicaid patients, even as the legislature added $5 million to the state budget for prenatal care. Many doctors readily admit that applicants for new high-tech operations have to pass a "green screen" or "wallet biopsy" -- meaning those who can pay get first crack at the operations...