Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Management, unlike President Rudenstine, does not "office hours" and does limit its periodic newsletter to some 300 screened alumni. Occassionally, Harvard Management does visit with potential mega-buck contributors at Harvard functions. As a personal aside, I have found President Rudenstine to be a far better letter writer...
...scenes in Europe and Asia reflected the frenzy at trading desks everywhere as day after day the dollar and other currencies crashed to new lows. Before the panic abated, the once mighty American buck was worth little more than 88 yen and 1.36 marks (it fetched 238 yen and 2.94 marks in 1985); so far this year, the dollar has skidded 9% against both the yen and the mark. But the dollar's troubles were only part of the turmoil: the British pound, the French franc and the Italian lira also tumbled, and the Mexican peso resumed its free fall...
Patrick Dempsey is wonderful as the virus' first victim, a Generation X kid trying to make a buck by bending the rules and smuggling the monkey to sell...
...wildly disjunctive cocktail of prayers and quiz shows, Egyptian sitcoms, jingle-filled ads for imported detergents and computer-generated graphics of holy men. General manager Ahmad, who abandoned a career as a mechanical engineer to join Hizballah, thinks he can "participate in the resistance" as well as turn a buck. He claims Lighthouse ranks fifth among some 50 Lebanese TV stations, and that advertising provided a third of last year's budget...
...Madonna and Carl Sagan. Terenzi has used audio telescopes to intercept radio waves from a galaxy 180 million light-years away, then fed them into a computer, applied a sound-synthesis program to convert her data into music and produced Music from the Galaxies. Result: part New Age, part Buck Rogers sound track, played on an oscilloscope. The Future Sound of London, one of Britain's trendiest club bands, performed ``live'' last November at the Kitchen in New York City -- while physically remaining in its studio on Chapter Road in Dollis Hill, London. The group's banks of synthesizers...