Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assigning blame and guilt solely to military men for the tragedy of the illegitimate Amerasian children [NATION, Sept. 24], you overlook the thousands of newsmen, civilian contractors, Government employees and merchants who flocked to Viet Nam in pursuit of the dollar...
...Burgundies and Chablis produced by such vintners as Inglenook and Almaden, have fallen off. The price of a gallon jug of domestic wine sold in food stores has been cut in half since 1981, to about $3. Meanwhile, foreign vintners have flooded the U.S. Helped by a strong dollar that has made their wines cheaper for American buyers, foreigners boosted their share of the American market this year to more than 25%, up from 13% in 1975. Italy, the biggest seller to the U.S., uncorked the low-price segment with fruity, fizzy Lambruscos like Riunite and dry soaves like Folonari...
WHENEVER BARBARA Walters lets a solemn tone creep into her voice, I expect to hear something like "How has stardom treated you, Farrah?" It's been so long since the Million Dollar Journalist covered anything real that I wasn't sure she remembered how. But when her big chance for revived "hard news" exposure finally came, in the first Presidential debate last week, she managed at the same time both to misstate an important issue and overstate the purity of American political news coverage...
Tonight's talent show, which has already sold out its 850 five-dollar tickets, will feature parodies of popular movies and songs by each of the 18 first-and second-year Masters of Business Administration (MBA) student sections...
...California's Silicon Valley. Said Ulric Weil, an industry analyst for the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "History shows that acquisitions of this type, when you mix corporate cultures, don't work. IBM is taking a big risk." Rolm employees set their own work hours; a million-dollar recreation center at the firm's campus-like headquarters includes two swimming pools, an exercise room, a sauna and tennis and racquetball courts. Even so, Rolm is not as informal as many other Silicon Valley firms, where jeans and open-necked shirts are in fashion. Rolm's senior executives...