Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually disclosed in the spring just before corporate annual meetings, is moving up again. During the recession, corporate raises slowed to a creep. But now that many companies have returned to profitability, big corporate raises are back. In fact, some of these are pushing executive incomes over the million-dollar summit. But, of course, it is difficult to make meaningful generalizations about salary levels for all U.S. corporations...
Many top executives, of course, are worth every dollar they earn-and more. Says Lester Korn, chairman of the headhunting firm Korn/Ferry International: "The question isn't how high salaries are, but how misunderstood they are." Top managerial talent is a limited resource, and companies must pay competitive rates to attract and keep the most sought-after executives. Shareholders have little reason to complain about the salary of a million-dollar manager who boosts the profits of a billion-dollar company. Says Lawrence Klamon, who earned $429,000 last year as president of Atlanta's Fuqua Industries...
...handful of nations around the world have entered a high stakes race to develop faster and more efficient supercomputers. Ten billion dollars have been committed to such research by industries around the world. The investment, however, is only a fraction of the envisioned spoils; the winner will corner a five-hundred billion dollar-a-year market of information-age business. The ultimate Prize is even greater-the development of artificial intelligence...
...machine to involve the viewer to actively engage their semiotic interest. They wrote up a script which included several different symbolic choices as part of what was essentially a video game except that the viewer would make choices between turning down a street to follow a flying dollar bill or stopping into an exciting-looking disco where love seems to await...
...Argentina $37 billion or $43 billion in debt? Last week Argentine leaders were asking that billion-dollar question. Only three weeks after an international rescue squad of public and private lenders had saved Argentina from missing the deadline for a $500 million interest payment, that country's finances appeared to be a more confusing mess than ever...