Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walks a small man wearing rumpled double-knits, looking nothing like the head of a multi-million dollar operation. He is surrounded by a small coterie of staff assistants businly vying for his attention; we expect one of them to kiss his ring at any moment. A lady emerges to announce--with great pleasure and relish--that Mr. Stanley Kaplan is here in the flesh to welcome us personally...
With the premium on board scores as a standardized measure--whether it be for college (SATs), business school (GMATs)--graduate school (GREs), or medical school (MCATs)--it's little wonder that the test preparation business has mushroomed into a flourishing multi-million dollar industry...
...half-million dollar contract will provide for the re modeling of a building at 71 Mt. Auburn St. which Hillel will lease from the University...
...that they tried to prevent him from meeting with Pope Paul VI in 1964. It is known that the FBI circulated false personal letters in the press and the mails for the purpose of discrediting participants in the anti-war movement. It is known that the FBI's largest dollar and man-hour activity was "No. 1-type activity"--activity aimed at "preventing people from teaching and meeting and speaking," according to the Senate Subcommittee on Intelligence in 1975. "Many of the FBI's targets of the new left were professors at universities," an FBI agent told the Senate subcommittee...
...Saudis have gained little from that, except perhaps a heightening of the aura of prestige surrounding them in international money markets. The value of the riyal in dollars does not affect its purchasing power at home, and the Saudis pay for imports and foreign investments not with riyals but with the dollars they get from oil sales. Indeed, the Saudis let few riyals out of the country; they do not want the riyal to become an international currency, lest its value be set by speculators and other money traders. Authorities have kept the formula by which they peg the riyal...