Word: billions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bernardo Quintana, for example, built the capital's famous subway system and now handles construction projects all over Latin America. Another highly successful family is that of Garza Sadas of Monterrey, whose investments in tourism and Grupo Industrial Alfa, an industrial conglomerate, are estimated to be worth $1 billion...
...fuel crunch has moved from the gas station to the furnace room. Since January the average price of heating oil has jumped from less than 56? per gal. to more than 80?, an increase well in excess of 40%. The country's total heating-oil bill, about $10 billion last year, will rise by $4.3 billion...
Congress so far has done nothing to ease this new burden by approving either Jimmy Carter's request for $400 million for special low-income assistance in paying fuel bills or his proposed windfall-profits tax, which budgets some $1.2 billion in additional help. As a result, states are moving on their own. Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island are all looking into setting aside funds to provide heating money to the needy. In Virginia, Winchester Memorial Hospital's emergency-room staff is studying the treatment for hypothermia, caused when severe cold, combined with poor nutrition, makes body temperature...
...antidote, several board members favor a tax cut. Heller argues that an early $28 billion reduction for consumers and corporations is "the only way to fly." Joseph Pechman, head of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, agrees on the need for a prompt...
...collection of monies that will give more economic and geopolitical power to hard-currency nations, including West Germany and Japan. In an attempt to remove from the money markets some of the excess dollars that provide cannon fodder for speculators, the IMF would replace as much as $40 billion with its own bonds. Now there are some $225 billion in dollars in foreign central bank vaults and $500 billion more in private hands outside the U.S. For a generation the dollar's dominant currency role reflected U.S. global might; its decline mirrors America's shrunken role...