Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over a year ago, the Kennedy Library Corporation unanimously voted to locate the multi-million dollar Kennedy Library complex at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Columbia Point in Dorchester, ending twelve years of indecision and delay as to the fate of the highly contested gift...
...banana producer's cartel in the style of OPEC. This might seem ludicrous, but the fact is that bananas are by far the world's most popular fruit, accounting for more than 40 per cent of the world trade in fresh fruits. Their initial goal was to levy a dollar tax on every box of bananas. Ecuador, the biggest producer, dropped out first, and finally only Panama held the line. Honduras agreed to a 25-cent tax. To be sure the agreement would hold, United Fruit paid someone in the Honduran government half of a $2.5 million bribe; soon afterward...
...Million Dollar Frosh...
...basically. The lives of both of these men were ruined. Alger Hiss I think never understood that, precisely how it was ruined. I think there is in some way a lack of awareness about the cost to him, because overtly, at least, what are the costs? Twenty-five hundred dollar evening lecture appearances all over the country; a 60 Minutes television program coming out; a sort of informal retrial through his suit and all the rest. Well, that sounds quite charming, but someone should go talk to Mrs. Hiss sometime, see how she lives. She refuses to get involved...
...changed much in the past three years or so. The high cost of postage has caused some people to strike names off their card lists. But there are more people to send cards every year and the cards are getting more expensive, so the industry's dollar sales seem to be up a bit-though the lack of hard figures makes it difficult to be sure...