Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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March 1, the lira skidded to 808 to the dollar. After the market reopened, the currency recovered slightly to the 790 range, mainly because the Italian central bank spent $300 million to buy up unwanted lire...
...store's creditors thought differently, and began pressing for liquidation. Grant owed $640 million to banks alone. No matter what Anderson did, the banks reasoned, Grant would wind up still deeply in the red, forcing creditors to settle for even less on the dollar than they will get from the liquidation...
...makers, and they have some figures to back up their claim. From 1967 through 1972, cereal sales hardly grew at all, but since then they have been rising rapidly-by 13% in 1973, 8% in 1974 and nearly 6% last year, to 1.8 billion lbs. In those three years, dollar sales have risen from $1.1 billion to $1.7 billion, and per capita consumption of cereal has expanded almost a third, from about 6 lbs. in 1972 to nearly...
...commentators, reggae songwriters like Jimmy Cliff, Toots Hibbert and Bob Marley and his group the Wailers have turned their island into one of the most music-conscious countries in the world. "Reggae songs are the strongest way to reach the people," says Songwriter Max Romeo. "People will pay a dollar for my message and reject the politician they can hear free of charge." The message is grim these days, with unemployment near 30% and the island a tinderbox of factional passions. Many of the Reggae Rastafarians urge that Jamaica drop out and become an agrarian nation based on black pride...
This is taxicab territory; unlike other parts of Boston, there was no mass exit at 12:30. The people here had enough money to pay a five dollar cover charge (two drinks included,) fifty cents for a mandatory coat check, $1.75 for additional drinks and eighty-five cents for a pack of cigarettes--cab fares are no problem. Within minutes, everyone is packed in mud-splattered yellow vehicles and wending homewards...