Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found a 11,110,100,001,001,000,000-dollar baby in a 101-and 1010-cent store is the translation into binary of I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store...
...retail price of sugar in the U.S. has careened between 17? and 63? per lb. during the past four years, a statistic well known to the often riled housewife. It is the cost at the supermarket that makes the headlines. But behind those prices can be multimillion-dollar battles between commercial and political rivals that escape public notoriety. And in this case there are. The very bitterness of the sugar-pricing controversy can be seen in one of the last official acts by the late Senator Hubert Humphrey, who in a statement accused the Carter Administration of "bungling and ineptitude...
...past three years, the smuggling of drugs from Latin America has become Florida's growth industry, a multibillion-dollar business involving private airlines and speedboats, Mafia connections and high-priced lawyers. Arrayed against them is the collective might of the U.S. Customs Service, the Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as local lawmen. The good guys are clearly losing the battle. Last year Feds in the Southeast seized roughly 1.4 million lbs. of marijuana, with a street value of $420 million, and 533 lbs. of cocaine worth $133 million. But perhaps ten times that amount...
...breathing space between dollar crises used to be measured in years, but now it has been cut back to weeks. If last December's tumultuous plunge of the greenback was the worst since the currency upheavals of 1973, its place in the recordbooks was short-lived indeed. Last week the dollar bears were again on the prowl, clawing the bleeding buck to new and worrisome lows against the Japanese yen and nearly all the major trading currencies of Europe...
...dollar's worst performance came in West Germany, where it dropped nearly 4.4 pfennigs in one day, crashing below the psychologically important two-mark barrier before rallying slightly to close the week at 2.02. In Switzerland, the dollar rocketed between extremes of 1.88 and 1.75 Swiss francs within two trading days. The dollar even managed a distinction of sorts by hitting a 17-month low against the Italian lira, one of the world's weakest currencies...