Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heads are basically pushing to gain back what was taken from the workers a year and a half ago. Hormel had cut hourly meatpacker wages by more than two dollars in October 1984. Through bargaining, that pay was raised another dollar. Recently P-9 refused several offers and seems willing to hold out until management makes an offer close to the employees' 1984 wages...
Cliff Sheehan exhibited his six million dollar kick twice on Sunday. After finishing a disappointing third in the 3000 on Saturday ("I didn't have enough guts to stay with the pace," he said), Sheehan was hungry for a win. And he twice feasted on Navy's Ron Harris...
Kodak, which suffered a 27% profit decline during the first nine months of 1985, blamed product-development costs and foreign competition. Kodak's profits were further hurt by the strength last year of the U.S. dollar, which raised the company's prices overseas...
...last October, it did not stop her from plunking down another buck. In fact, she raised her weekly total bet from 60 to 100 tickets. And, wonder of numbers, she hit again last week, this time for nearly $1.5 million, becoming the first two-time winner of a million-dollar-plus state lottery. Stunned officials had to consult a statistics professor before determining that Adams had just beaten odds of 17.3 trillion to 1. Both of her winning tickets were purchased at the 7-Eleven store in Point Pleasant that her fiance owns and she has managed for the past...
Black South African speakers at the rally said Harvard failed to conult them and the proper Black political leaders in South Africa about how to best use the $1 million dollar fund set aside by President Derek C. Bok in September to help South African Blacks...