Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true, as Gitell claims, that "each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funneled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. "Drugs didn't kill Tiffany; drug laws did. Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner...
...Each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funnelled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. It is a dollar that can be spent on buying bullets to put into a Mac-10 machine pistol or into an AK-47 sub-machine gun. And people should realize that...
Earlier this fall, the University spent about $350,000 to remove hazardous asbestos materials from the walls of the Faculty Club in order to continue its multi-million dollar renovations that began this summer...
...supposed to be a big day for Samuel Pierce, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pierce had agreed to testify before the House subcommittee investigating charges that his department had a soft spot for well-connected Republicans who garnered huge fees for helping developers land multimillion-dollar federal housing contracts. But Pierce, known as Silent Sam, decided to live up to the name. He informed the panel, headed by California's Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, that he was canceling his appearance. He said his newly hired lawyers needed more time to prepare...
...worriers are joined by another group: customers. If an airline is bogged down by debt, they wonder, would the carrier be tempted to save money by lowering its standards on maintenance and other safety measures? Everyone from passengers to politicians has begun to debate that question as billion-dollar takeover wars sweep the U.S. airline industry. Says Jerome Lederer, founder of the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation, an aviation- research group: "Buyouts need careful scrutiny, particularly with regard to maintenance practices. Safety must be paramount, and safety has suffered when maintenance is shoddy...