Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...What the dollar giveth, the dollar can also take away. And the value of America's coin of the realm may begin to assume greater prominence in the calculations of Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, as he computes the new record high in the U.S. trade deficit announced Wednesday. The $29.2 billion figure for February was almost $2 billion up from the previous month, and even though the oil-price hike was responsible for a substantial portion of the difference, the figure remains untenably high...
Cochran has won several multi-million dollar verdicts for victims of police brutality and is currently representing the family of Patrick Dorismond, an unarmed black man shot and killed by an undercover police officer in New York last month...
Such a rift between Faculty members and central administration bodes ill for the institution as a whole. If the University is considering allocating large sums of money, for example, to relocate a graduate school to Allston, develop distance learning initiatives or create a multi-million dollar computer system to centralize finances, faculty members should be, at the very least, consulted, if not actively involved in the decision-making process. Instead, the FAS committee's report noted, "Major decisions involving the commitment of substantial resources...are sometimes first discovered by faculty from the local press." Some FAS members have even suggested...
...April 1975, the end of the American role in Vietnam, was ignominious and indelible - the last choppers lifting off the American embassy roof, Marines hammering the fingers of desperate Vietnamese trying to cling to the skids, and then the millions of dollars' worth of helicopters being pushed off the flight decks of carriers into the South China Sea to make way for more incoming helicopters. "Numbah Ten," as they said in Vietnam, the rout of the Dollar People...
...eyes of the consumer, these products exemplify Thoreau's celebrated "simplicity." The company's best-seller is a drink you can buy at Store 24 for a little over a dollar. Its two main ingredients are sugar and water, and it comes in a plastic bottle with a twist-off cap and coated wrap-around paper label. That...