Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the regulations the state would allot an average of eight cents for every dollar of financial aid a university gives to Massachusetts students. True said...
...fairly easy for a mind trying to grasp the mysteries and complexities of nature to become canonical, fanatical or just nutty. So let's have sympathy for Governor Ray trying to compromise between the God of nature, the almighty dollar and a technocratic society...
...meeting. Nigeria, Indonesia and Venezuela, badly in need of more oil income to pay for instant industrialization projects, were making weak requests for an increase of 5% or so. They argued that a boost was needed to make up for worldwide inflation and the dropping value of the dollar, which has cost them 20¢ per bbl. this year...
Because it nets less than three cents on every sales dollar, Chrysler needed to build up its cash position, partly to finance refitting of the Belvidere, Ill., plant, where the new cars will be assembled. In 1976 the company sold its Air-temp air-conditioning division to Fedders for $47 million; the sale has now become the subject of lawsuits. Last month the real estate division sold several shopping centers, a hotel and some office buildings for $50 million...
...acquisition of National Starch will be the 16th purchase of a North American company by a British or partly British firm so far this year; the British takeovers now amount to an aggregate investment of $1 billion. Such takeovers have become easier because the falling value of the dollar enables a British firm to put up fewer pounds for a buyout. Unilever, which had 1976 revenues of $14.8 billion, dwarfs National Starch, which posted 1976 sales of $339 million. But National Starch's industrial markets complement Unilever's lines of household products, which include Lifebuoy and Wisk, Pepsodent...