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Reagan seems like the perfect oppurtunity to reintroduce the half-penny and farthing.
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We're willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out failed enterprises, but we're not willing to spend more than a half-penny of the federal budget dollar to support one of the greatest enterprises in history.
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Since the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963, women's wages have risen less than a half-penny per year, from 59 cents then to 77 cents now.
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Cook County Commissioners voted 12 to 5 to override Board President Todd Stroger's controversial veto of a half-penny sales tax rollback .... var news_amount = 3;
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If you haven't got a penny, a half-penny will do, and if you haven't got a half-penny then God bless you!
Maria Rodale: How to Cook a Goose Maria Rodale 2010
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There was a literal half-penny – a coin cut in half to buy things costing less than 1 cent – and three other coins including a German-made game token stamped with George Washington's profile.
Georgia Southern Student Finds Rare Confederate POW Camp Artifacts 2010
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Something that honest, that do-good-able should not simply be dismissed from duty like the half-penny before it.
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I see no reason why such an assembly should not debate in the open light of day and without caring a half-penny who won the General Election, or who had the best slogans for curing unemployment, all the grave economic issues by which we are now confronted afflicted.
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The government absorbed the service and then later squashed an attempt to establish a half-penny post in London.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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Cook County Commissioners voted 12 to 5 to override Board President Todd Stroger's controversial veto of a half-penny sales tax rollback ....
Carol Felsenthal: Emil Jones, His Stepson, and Todd Stroger -- A Great Deal for Them 2009
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