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Word: dollarization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mind Race. "I did the work," he contends. Because he was working with special clearances while at SRI International, a California research institute, Targ will not specify whether the Defense Department, the CIA or both funded his psychic research programs, but he maintains that there was a "multimillion-dollar" project, part of which focused on "remote viewing" experiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An E.S.P. Gap | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...brimming with aw-shucks charm, Paulson had been moderately wealthy for several years before his half-billion-dollar windfall. Now he complains that "going public was probably the worst thing that happened to me. My private life became my public life. It's like living in a fishbowl." Paulson is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. replica of an antebellum mansion near Savannah that has 2,000 sq. ft. of porches, two man-made lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a tennis court, a boat dock and a landing pad for his five-passenger Bell JetRanger III helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Mint Overnight | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...security review is important because Harvard is planning to modernize significantly its computer facilities and several multi-million-dollar purchases are under negotiation...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Police, B-School Review Computer Security Plan | 1/20/1984 | See Source »

...good news at home had its parallel abroad, where Americans were enjoying the spending power of the strongest dollar in years. Propelled by the high level of U.S. interest rates and concerns about political instability abroad, the dollar smashed records for three straight days. The U.S. currency reached alltime highs against the French franc, the Italian lira and the British pound, and a ten-year peak in relation to the West German mark. By the end of the week, a dollar was worth 8.59 francs, 1,700.25 lire and 2.8 marks. The pound cost only $1.40. The dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What a Way to Start a Year! | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...accurate." That kind of advice infuriates the anti-drunken-driving activists. "Drunk driving is a multimillion-dollar business for lawyers," says an angry Doris Aiken, founder of Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID). She has some advice of her own for the new legion of legal specialists. "The best thing a lawyer can do for the drunk driver," she says, "is to tell him to face the music, and not go after a big fee to get him off." - By Michael S. Serrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Drunk Drivers Turn to the Bar | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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