Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high prices. But when the rains returned to the Golden Triangle in 1980, bumper crops followed, and suddenly growers from Iran to Thailand were saddled with a burgeoning surplus. Prices for high-grade heroin are still falling, as Asian dealers try to undercut one another in a multimillion-dollar scramble for new users. Hong Kong's 45,000 addicts can now shoot up for about the price of a movie ticket, $3. In Malaysia, a fix costs less than $2, no more than a beer...
...Mint has struck some handsome coins over the years, the buffalo nickel and the Kennedy half-dollar among them. But the Government's 1984 silver dollar, designed to commemorate the Summer Olympics, is drawing a chorus of catcalls. One side of the dollar, portraying a bald eagle, is pleasing. But the opposite, or "heads" side, contains no heads at all. It features the bare torsos of a male and a female athlete, apparently standing atop the Los Angeles Coliseum, the principal site of the Games. Sniffed Coin Columnist Ed Reiter: "It is quite possibly one of the ugliest coins...
McGovern, asking for the same support that won him Massachusetis in his losing 1972 presidential bid, told the crowd to "look into your hearts and vote your conscience. Your vote is not a two-dollar bet on a horse race. The real issue is the arms race versus the human race...
...seems to be working. Losses for 1983 were $485 million, vs. $1.74 billion the year before. Truck sales are strong, and the farm equipment business is sprouting healthily. The best part came in January, when Lennox told shareholders that Harvester's creditors had agreed to refinance its multibillion-dollar debt. Without that understanding, the company would undoubtedly have been forced into bankruptcy...
...million-dollar track will be off-limits to the audience and cordoned off by security man, council members said...