Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After my experience this summer, I better understand what I dread about the working world: Even if the work is glamorously unrepetitive, it is still unappealingly impersonal. Media work converts one's success into dollar signs and another's loss into high ratings--it takes the drama and glitz away from the changes and events that should spark our sentiments and emotions. The media plays an important, integral role in our society, no doubt. But the toll that it takes on those who micromanage the industry may be too much for me to bear...
...participants in the rally were as interested in social justice as those on Oboler's list. Interspersed between the tables advocating capitalism's overthrow were red and white carnival tents offering three dollar cups of lemonade, four dollar pretzels and "all beef diggity dogs...
...midst of this multimillion-dollar extravaganza, I've spoken with folks who've made their first trip to "the big city," laughed with them about the elaborate expense of the events and even amiably shared bar space with retired Reagan appointees...
...admit I was suckered. At first I thought the "X" oversight was just a coincidence. Nobody could be so careless with this multimillion-dollar secret, least of all CBS, a network so paranoid about security it required reporters visiting Pulau Tiga to sign a scary nondisclosure agreement, which TIME and others refused to do. Why tell the web guys months ahead of time, for God's sake...
...nationwide campaign to force the premarket safety testing and labeling of those GMOs, or genetically modified organisms. Seven organizations--including such media-savvy veterans as the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and the Public Interest Research Groups--were launching the Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a million-dollar, multiyear organizing effort to pressure Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and individual companies, one at a time, starting with Campbell's soup...