Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...former Harvard security guard who won a multimillion dollar jury judgment against Harvard will remain in the country, pending an appeal of a court order that would have required him to leave the U.S. this month...
...grief paralyze him. He founded the Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, dedicated to the prevention of youth suicide. Through it, Franklin, 61, became an even more prominent presence in Colorado. His fund raisers drew donations from the Denver Broncos, Coors, Norwest Bank, Texaco and Conoco. The half-million-dollar foundation is developing recording studios, a 240-acre mountain retreat, a computer lab for kids who are at risk and a hockey arena. "Les' program is very successful," says Dar Emme, founder of the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program in Westminster, Colo. "Taking the grief of losing a child and turning...
Enron also leverages its assets and expertise to provide services to big customers. Since 1997, companies like Owens Corning and Chase Manhattan Bank have signed long-term, multibillion-dollar contracts with Enron subsidiary Enron Energy Services (EES) that lock in their energy costs for up to 10 years and provide Enron with a steady revenue stream. What's more, Enron is beginning to actively manage its clients' heating and cooling plants, installing new equipment when necessary and monitoring it all over the Internet...
...credit cards), where we sat (exactly), and what we all drank, she called me back to say the gentleman we're speaking of used a credit card WITH NO NAME ON IT! She said the signature is pretty illegible but it looked vaguely like DELETED (LM) with a dollar sign next to it. She said it could've just been scribble, but there was definitely no credit card with the name "Lance Morrow" used that evening. Interesting...
...told us that he'd almost been married but broke off the engagement. He said it was to be a half-million-dollar wedding.... At the end of the night, after his barstool curiously slipped out from beneath him and he almost fell to the floor, he wrote his e-mail, phone number and address on a napkin. He said he lived in the Village I think but I've thrown out the napkin. By the way, at one point in he night I'd asked him for his card. He said he wasn't carrying any with...