Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Chaudhuri focuses much of his novel on Jayojit's observations of the seemingly mundane details of life in Calcutta. Jayojit dutifully recounts the shifts in the dollar-rupee ratio and vividly describes the different saris worn by all the women he sees. He is as entranced by the noise of car horns on the street as he is by the religious rituals of his parents' neighbors. These snippets of life in India that Chaudhuri gives us through his account of Jayojit's wanderings are sometimes moving, sometimes simply mundane. But these observations in fact provide the key to Jayojit...
...amendment specified the precise dollar amount that City Manager Robert W. Healy could ask for in a bond issue to raise money for the expansion and renovation. The provision capped the figure...
Property taxes in Costa Rica are lower than in the U.S., capital gains are tax free, and the dollar's value against the local currency, the colon, has enjoyed a steady upward trajectory that keeps pace with the increase in the cost of living. On the other hand, sales tax is a steep 13%, and heavy import duties are levied on some assets, like cars. Complicating many financial transactions is the Costa Rican banking system: waiting for a check to clear requires extreme patience...
That brings Averell and Gerety's point total for campaign violations to 31, and their total monetary penalty to $61, This means Averell and Gerety can only spend $29 of the $100 allotted inibecause in addition to the dollar-per-point deduction, candidates are penalized $10 for every set of 10 points lost...
...anybody has the right to throw a shameless multi-million dollar storybook wedding that spares no expense, it should be Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. After all, Douglas is a freakin' billionaire and well, he's never gonna get a girl like Catherine again. (Let me say for the record, that I still am floored by the fact that she had a baby. That means they had/have sex. Yikes.) Why, then, did they have to turn it into such a sketchy affair? First, Douglas secured an exclusive $1.4 million deal with OK! Magazine to publish the official wedding photos...