Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extending hours. Customers who open an IRA at North Carolina Federal Savings and Loan in Charlotte automatically enter a drawing for a free round-trip Piedmont Airlines ticket, which can be used on any of the routes the carrier flies, from Miami to San Francisco. New York City's Dollar Dry Dock Savings Bank is offering new IRA depositors an immediate cash bonus of up to $30. The First National Bank of Chicago has set up an IRA center that will be open on the Saturday before the deadline and until midnight on April 15. To handle the rush, senior...
...crumbling Boys Choir School and the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center on the north side of Mt. Auburn St. As a result, any financing scheme for the Kiely project has to take into account not only operating and construction expenses, but also the church's desire to get top dollar for its property lease...
...director of the Economic Policy Council, a Manhattan-based think tank. Hewlett was increasingly struck by the income disparity between European and American women, a plight she illustrates with cold statistics. As of August 1985, Census Bureau figures show that women in the U.S. earn 64 cents for each dollar earned by males, up only 1 cents since 1939. European women, by contrast, have been gaining on men much more rapidly. In Sweden, for example, women now average 81% of male annual earnings, up from 71% in 1970. In France, women's wages...
...road shows in five states, including California and Florida. On a recent trip to Dallas, Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin, leaders of the military-reform movement on Capitol Hill, told some 200 local Democratic spear carriers that while the Reagan Administration's trillion-dollar military buildup had created a "museum of weapons systems," the U.S. still lacks a sound and coherent defense strategy. Doves they are not, however. Said Nunn: "We need to make sure that the public understands that the Democratic Party stands for a strong position on national security...
...loans, from 7.5% to 7%. Volcker urged the board to postpone the cut because he was trying to persuade other industrial countries to drop their interest rates first. He feared that if American rates fell too fast, foreign investors would pull money out of the U.S. and send the dollar into a free fall...