Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Videos often seem just as plentiful and, comparatively, just as costly. Their average budget is about $20,000 to $40,000, and the majority are shot in a day or two. That sort of speed, and per dollar value, has its appeal for such film makers as John Landis, Mike Hodges and Bob Rafelson, who have worked within the slower, costlier Hollywood system. Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) shot Billy Idol's Dancing with Myself in two days, edited it in a week, and saw it on the air two weeks after that. "You can have...
...Meanwhile, in Italy as in France, domestic consumption of wine has steadily decreased. "This generation," notes Agriculture Department Wine Specialist Rex Dull, "wants le Coca-Cola and le whisky." In the U.S., prices of foreign wines are substantially lower in large part because of the strong dollar...
...Loeb associate professor, Suleiman has been one of the occupants of Harvard's first group of endowed junior professorships created two years ago through a multi-million dollar donation from a New York investment banker...
WHEN SWINGTIME SWEETIE Billy Crocker sings the praises of nightclub knockout Reno Sweeney, he lovingly croons "You're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary, you're Chippendale." Not to be outdone, Reno hails Billy as equal in stature to a silver dollar, an Arrow collar--even "cellophane...
...irreverent eye, it looks like an outsize Thermos bottle. But the oddly configured contraption, nestled in the big cargo bay of the space shuttle, represents a giant step into the cosmos. When Columbia roars off its Florida pad on Monday morning, Nov. 28, it will be carrying the billion-dollar Spacelab, the first true scientific research station in orbit...