Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug addiction. It also hosts 116 researchers from about 40 institutions all over the world, and gives them technical help with primate experiments. Outside researchers' work is funded by grants for their specific projects, while the upkeep of the center itself is paid for by a separate multimillion-dollar "core funding" grant from the National Institutes of Health...
...have a new generation of people with spending power. They do not need politics as an occupation, nor do they need political support to succeed," he said. "Where at one time we had baby boomers of the sixties running around without any power of the dollar, we now have an older generation of individuals with a great deal of spending power...
...some there is a downside to this prosperity. Political observers said this power of the baby-boomer vote and dollar is disenfranchising other members of the Boston community and thus leading to low voterturnout. These analysts said the success of thebaby boom generation has forced traditionalBostonians out of gentrified neighborhoods and seta political agenda attractive to only...
...bankruptcy are worth a look, he says, if the value of their / assets is not fully reflected in the price of their securities. Earlier this year, Bennett decided that bonds issued by Louisiana's Crystal Oil, a Shreveport-based company in bankruptcy, were worth more than 4 cents per dollar of face value. Four months after he recommended the bonds, the price jumped to 16 cents...
...wider than this geographic separation is a gulf of distrust. White friends could not fathom why I wanted to go to Black areas. Neither could Blacks, once I got there. When I asked a Black street peddler to break a dollar for bus change, his boss warned him, "Don't give change to no white girl...