Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...people on a tropical island to scrabble for food and shelter, all for the delectation of sluggards licking Cheetos dust off their fingers in their air-conditioned living rooms. It's the Machiavellian twist: having the contestants vote one another off the island until there is a single million-dollar winner and 15 rejects. It's the suffering, the mean-spiritedness, the humiliation...
After nearly 10 years at the helm of a multi billion-dollar ship, Neil L. Rudenstine will step down at the end of this year as the 26th president of Harvard University...
...vast majority of underage students reported that obtaining alcohol was "very easy." More than half said they paid less than one dollar for a drink, got it free, or paid a set price for an unlimited number of drinks compared to 15 percent of students 21 to 23 years...
...economic destiny and prosperity of entire nations may rest on one question: Can silicon-based computer technology sustain Moore's law beyond 2020? Moore's law (see sidebar) is the engine pulling a trillion-dollar industry. It's the reason kids assume that it's their birthright to get a video-game system each Christmas that's almost twice as powerful as the one they got last Christmas. It's the reason you can receive (and later throw away) a musical birthday card that contains more processing power than the combined computers of the Allied Forces in World...
...investment plan would help participants save up to $2,000 per year, while (here's the kicker) draining government coffers of roughly $200 billion over 10 years. The scheme would provide government grants to families who contribute to individual retirement accounts (at a rate of up to three government dollars to one individual dollar, depending on income level...