But Seattle's mayor, Greg Nickels, has said publicly that discouraging begging is what they are for.
"Ergen throws around nickels like manhole covers, " says Clelend, referring to the executive's legendary parsimony.
But they went home with a few extra nickels -- money from the patsies.
The spectacle of the bulky, dark-haired Mr Nickels mud-wrestling with the diminutive, honey-haired Ms Gregoire has not been edifying.
And finally, no, Samsung has not paid the fine to Apple in nickels.
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Mr Nickels, who adamantly opposes a new viaduct, has countered Ms Gregoire with his last-minute suggestion for a downsized tunnel.
"I couldn't live in a world where all I do is try to squeeze nickels out here and there, " he says.
By the time I am 65, I suspect it will be means-tested away from anyone with two nickels to rub together.
Some residents here say they blame Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and a system they believe makes it difficult to escape homelessness.
Mr. Givens said a family attorney had heard of the famous 1913 Liberty nickels and asked if he could see the Walton coin.
In 2003, her children brought it to the American Numismatic Association's World Fair of Money, where the other four Liberty nickels were on display.
Here's an unusual prescription for success: Drop out of college, collect nickels from soda recycling deposits and survive on free food offered by Hare Krishnas.
Removing beavers entirely from Canada's national symbols would be labour-intensive: a stone beaver sits on top of the entrance to Parliament and appears on Canadian nickels.
"I'm a product of a single mom, who raised my sister and me and never had two nickels to rub together, " he said on the PBS program.
Finally, they brought the coin to the 2003 American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money in Baltimore, where the four surviving 1913 Liberty nickels were being exhibited.
Magazine publishers face two paper price increases this summer and are still trying to figure out how to make nickels from the Web, mobile and tablet platforms.
Social games like FarmVille may have some players paying nickels and dimes for virtual goods, but they could take a page from Second Life entrepreneur Jonty Glaser.
Still, there's enough good news that GM can at least start putting some nickels toward settling its debt and building a little good will with taxpayers and consumers.
Believing that Mr Nickels has ignored the tunnel's high price, Ms Gregoire has threatened to withdraw funding for any waterfront roadway if city leaders do not come to their financial senses.
People tithed in Mercury dimes and buffalo nickels, and pews filled with old men who wore ancient black suit coats over overalls, and young men in short-sleeved dress shirts and clip-on ties.
When we owned and operated a fried chicken franchise, one of our promotions involved 800 gallons of iced tea, 20, 000 nickels, and a couple of dozen high school cheerleaders and dance team members.
Everyone in this hamlet, it seemed, had just found a sixteen- or twenty-three-cent stamp in a dusty drawer, and had chosen today to supplement it up to viability using car-seat nickels and pennies.
The flip side of this is that if a stock is about to embark on a much larger move, I do not want to miss the trader negotiating for a few nickels or dimes.
The race is between Councilman Greg Nickels and city attorney Mark Sidran, both Democrats, though Sidran has been blasted in some quarters as leaning too far to the right for many in this left-leaning city.
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Nothing that might sting, nothing big -- just the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters that normally languish behind the couch, in old winter coats, on the floor of the car, or in the good ole spare-change-bowl-by-the-door.
They include reducing mail delivery by the U.S. Post Office to five days a week, giving the Treasury Department the authority to rethink the way pennies and nickels are coined to save costs and new restraints on military veteran benefits.
Mrs Gregoire has even waded into Seattle politics, pressuring the city's fractious city council and Greg Nickels Seattle's big, blunt-talking Democratic mayor, who towers over the small, slim governor to agree on a plan to replace the 53-year-old elevated motorway along the Seattle waterfront, which looks horrible and is vulnerable to earthquakes.
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