Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make raisins. You're a raisin maker, trying to bring home an honest dollar. And then this guy comes up to you and tells you he can make your raisins dance and gyrate and actually beat up other snacks, karate-chopping the potato chips and kicking the party-mix in the nuts. And all the while they're singing "Heard It Through the Grapevine." With real soul...
...done it again--another editorial turnaround that distorts the facts. The Crimson's editorial of 17 February asks students what they've gotten in exchange for their ten-dollar term-bill fees. After recognizing a long litany of Council successes last term, including the installation of $30,000 worth of new word processors for students in the Science Center, the extension of the dinner hour by 15 minutes, a successful Yale weekend, and eight well-attended milk-and-cookie breaks (the Ad Board reforms, the several pamphlets, and a number of other measures were not mentioned) the editorial slips into...
...industrial policy. He opposes restrictions on trade like tariffs and quotas and advocates a restructuring of Third World debt. In a speech last month, Hart proposed an overhaul of the U.S. education system featuring stricter accountability for teachers and offering educational retraining for adults. To help finance this multibillion-dollar proposal, he would impose a $10-per-bbl. fee on imported oil and make cuts in military and agriculture programs. Although Hart had one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate, he has cast himself as a nonideological technocrat intent on steering the Democratic party away from traditional...
...multi-million dollar Defense Department grant awarded last year to Harvard and MIT will make Cambridge New England's foremost center for research on surface materials, scientists said this week...
...state's Office of Federal Relations estimates that the total dollar value of state purchases in fiscal year 1985 from businesses with South African links is close to $50 million...