Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice, Thornburgh and his aides take a dim view as well of Von Raab's "Operation Paladin" plan to offer multimillion-dollar bounties for drug kingpins. Officials say Von Raab is "grandstanding" and fear bounties would invite international kidnaping...
...impact of defense cutbacks is amplified as it ripples through the communities where plants and bases are located. Pentagon economists estimate that each dollar spent in contracts triggers $1.60 of spending in the local economy. Reductions have a roughly equal and opposite effect. On Long Island, for example, defense contractors have cut their work force of 60,000 by more than one-fifth since 1987. As a result, an estimated 26,000 other local workers, from pizza-parlor employees to department-store clerks, have lost their jobs...
...content to go with the flow, be it the Mississippi River's wanton meanderings, the angry surge of molten rock from an Icelandic volcano, or the periodic slide of real estate in California's San Gabriel Mountains, where waterborne debris can roar down hillsides and turn million- dollar dream houses into nightmares for owners and insurance companies. McPhee's strength is the odd detail of natural disaster: "The house became buried to the eaves. Boulders sat on the roof. Thirteen automobiles were packed around the building, including five in the pool . . . The stuck horn of a buried car was blaring...
...which includes the root vegetable tinpsila. But on only two days in the past ten years has no one come to call at the WoodenKnife. "Some local people have a prejudice against Indian food," she notes dryly, standing against the spectacular Badlands moonscape that she describes as "my million-dollar view." She adds, "Not everybody, of course. But they think Indian food has puppies in it or something...
Some of the optimists expect the expansion to be kept afloat by three major forces: exports, housing and capital spending. No one thinks exports will repeat the explosive growth of last year, when sales abroad jumped nearly 30%, thanks largely to a declining U.S. dollar. One reason U.S. firms should find receptive markets overseas is that the economies of Western Europe and Japan are still rapidly expanding. European Community members are expected to sustain 3% growth in 1989, and Japan is likely to show a 5% gain for the fiscal year ending next March...