Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...beliefs died even harder than the '80s idea that the U.S. was becoming a corporate colony of Japan. And as late as the end of 1998, some economists feared that a ballooning U.S. trade deficit and the launch of a rival international currency, the euro, would send the American dollar into a headlong slide--maybe even a "dollar crisis...
...offer you something very similar," the e-mail began, "which is what you've got now: a very exciting position with lots of new challenges. And we have a new Foosball table and a group of folks here who really love you. You can't put a dollar figure on that." I was not only disappointed but kind of creeped out about the love part. Still, it beats working...
...South African inquiry has lifted the lid on a multimillion-dollar betting racket that has offered large amounts of cash to players who'll ensure that a favored team will lose a game, or simply that those players will perform below par. Cronje, who claims to have been led into the scheme by "Satan," is unlikely ever again to don his country's cap, and he may well have helped end the careers of some of his most promising players. The financial scandal may in fact be a reflection of changes in the game over the past three decades during...
...Scott) and Tom (First) of Nantucket Nectars rent the former D.U. final club building with big plans to move their multi-million dollar headquarters and to open a juice bar at the 45 Dunster St. site. But after heavy lobbying from the Harvard Square Defense Fund, Cambridge's zoning board allows the juice guys to only set up their corporate shop in the Square, denying them a license for selling their fruity concoctions...
Finally, Harvard was one of many defendants in a multi-billion dollar suit by a woman who claimed to have been "illegally implanted" by the federal government with a devise known as a "CATO," that caused great harm. Other defendants in the suit included former President George Bush, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and the Pentagon...