Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limited his practice to south of the border. Following a year's investigation, a San Diego grand jury indicted Contreras and six other Mexicans, one Canadian and eight Americans, as well as three Mexican firms, for peddling the contraband drug in the U.S. through a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation supplying some 10,000 cancer victims a day. It was the biggest crackdown yet against a drug that has a strong and persistent following even though, in the opinion of virtually all U.S. cancer specialists, it offers no real medical benefits...
Other operatives then shipped the drug in vials to regional distributors, such as health-food shops, or mailed it directly to doctors and cancer victims. Though Laetrile, which is an extract from apricot pits, costs less than a dollar a vial to manufacture, U.S. patients paid as much as $50 for three daily injections...
...collection of electric shavers as presents for friends." Later that same evening, the director of a manufacturing company "came to the Berlin Hilton to take an order for a considerable number of small ashtrays ... Johnson's disarming explanation: 'They look like a dollar and cost me only...
...three-year-old system of floating exchange rates, under which currency values rise or fall according to demand, has changed all that. Now an oversupply of dollars abroad simply drives down the price. This kind of automatic devaluation in turn makes U.S. exports cheaper, increases sales of American products abroad and tends to wipe out any payments deficit. In the long run, officials now think, the health of the U.S. international financial position will best be measured by the dollar's strength abroad...
...undergraduate women automatically become members of the RUS through the five dollar dues included on their term bills...