Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carbon-dioxide fizz by fermenting wine a second time inside the bottle. Until a few years ago, U.S. consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength of the dollar has brought French brands within easier reach of the average American. Mumm's Cordon Rouge and Perrier-Jouët's Grand Brut, both priced at about $20 two years ago, now sell in the U.S. for as little...
...assets what the previous coaches in all the bleak years before 1972 considered liabilities, including snowfalls. One of 14 children who farmed the ground near where the stadium stands now, Edwards is a wit who pretends to have hay in his hair. "We come to town with a ten-dollar bill in one pocket and the Ten Commandments in the other," he says. "And we don't break either...
...fears and possible long-term medical effects, while Union Carbide had to face the complex financial and legal fallout from the disaster. Even as the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation set into motion its official inquiry, U.S. lawyers descended on the stricken city to help its residents file multibillion-dollar lawsuits against Union Carbide...
Americans used to buy expensive cars at bargain prices in Europe and then ship them back to the U.S. But that practice declined in the late 1970s, when the slumping dollar drove up the price of a Mercedes-Benz, Porsche or BMW. The dollar is back, and so are the car importers...
...personally will be truly dissapointed if the media organizations lose either one of those cases. I think either one of them has the potential for real mischief if the case is lost And when I say lose, I mean lose big I'm not talking about a one-dollar award to either one of those plaintiffs I'm talking about an award that's measured in the millions of dollars. That would turn on a green light for more litigants and more lawyers to jump into a public forum against major media defendants that would be truly mischievous...