Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes a while for people to separate the two, but most people [running for office] spend 75 cents on the dollar trying to get people to remember their name," Grandy said. "I don't have that problem. Once I talk with people, the Gopher problem is gone...
Guitarist Jason Threlfall opened the concert with a musical tribute to a homeless man named Eddie. Mime and jack-of-all-trades Robert Salafia introduced the performers and offered rubber clown noses to those who contributed a dollar or more...
...Best Director, and the movie itself bested such high-profile con-tenders as Network for Best Picture of 1976. Avildsen's pride in the picture comes from more down-to-earth achievements, he said. Rocky was completed in 28 days for $950,000 so that even without the multimillion dollar windfall, ticket lines around the block and Hollywood's highest honors, Avildsen said, "it was hard to lose...
...word--Avildsen observed "There are only so many stories. Some people say there are only two stories, 'Jack and the Bean-stalk' and 'Cinderella."' Which kind does the blockbuster filmmaker and Academy Award winner favor? "Stories that don't cost a lot of money to do." In the trillion-dollar age of the imperial Spielbergian director, it's understandable why Avildsen remains one of the business's favorite practitioners...
When Congress voted sanctions against South Africa last month over President Reagan's veto, it left unresolved the thorny question of whether American firms would continue operating in the land of apartheid. While sanctions prohibit new American investments in South Africa, they do not affect the billions of dollars that U.S. companies have already invested in operations there. Thus the American business presence in South Africa has continued to be a focus for con-troversy, as well as a major public relations problem for many large U.S. companies. Last week, in a move that was of great symbolic importance even...