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Recent Examples of C-noteThe official pocketed the 25 C-notes and wrote out the permit.—Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024 Contrast doesn't get much better than that short of a pricey OLED panel, a noteworthy achievement for a monitor that costs less than a C-note.—PCMAG, 31 May 2024 There are plenty of great options to be had for below a C-note.—Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 30 May 2024 Such modules get a maker close to a complete class-D amp for about a C-note or less (sometimes substantially less).—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2018
Adams has shown a remarkable indifference toward early-childhood education, slicing hundreds of millions of dollars from the city’s 3-K and U.P.K. programs even as COVID-era federal stimulus funds for early-childhood programs were expiring.
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2025
Later, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill authorized hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild airports, bridges and highways, billions more to build a network of electric vehicle chargers and more broadband Internet.
But try that nowadays and the guy will laugh derisively, then pick up your sawbuck between his thumb and index finger, like a piece of filth, and hand it back to you.
Jack Handey,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2024
Say, there's an idea: The mall is free, but the greeter will shake your hand for a sawbuck.
Multiple wildfires have ravaged the east and west sides of Los Angeles County, and many families have lost their homes–tens of thousands of residents near the Palisades and Eaton fires remain under evacuation orders.
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
13 Jan. 2025
More than thirty years after Voinovich and the bishops proposed vouchers as a solution for underprivileged children in a single city, public subsidies for private-school tuition were now universal in Ohio, covering tens of thousands of families.
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