Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first stage in this "dollar democracy" was for Draper Labs--a Cambridge company which designs missile guidance systems--to hire two expensive public relations specialists. One of these then organized the campaign against the referendum, and the money began to flow in. The Times article reports that contribution totalled $150,000 from such major out-of-state military contractors as Hughes Aircraft, Sperry Corporation and General Electric. Money also came from Draper Labs, which is unwilling to disclose the extent of its financing. But the total of corporate funds employed by Draper's pro-nuclear campaign may well have been...
...Draper campaign's great wealth was used for direct mail, a telephone bank, literature distribution and massive television advertising. The Times reports. An advertising effort so incredibly well-funded was bound to work, and it did. But does "one dollar, one vote" truly represent democracy? Bruce Brandt '86 Show-Man Chen '86 Brian Palmer '86 Steven Smart '86 James Thomas...
Students can get a one-dollar discount from the regular prices of $6, $8, and $10 at the Harvard Hall ticket office this morning. After 10 a.m., the tickets will be returned to the Garden, and will be on sale until game time...
...required a great deal of construction. And far from refusing individual contributions as the Los Angeles committee has, the Sarajevo organizers have politely accepted $10 million from 1.4 million citizens, amazing support in an economy where the dinar is down to one-sixth of its 1979 value against the dollar...
...such niceties, Snider puts one in mind of Willy Loman and his need to be well liked, particularly since that modern archetype also practiced his wiles in similarly unpromising venues. Snider's equivalent of the New England territory is the wet-T-shirt contest, the dream of multimillion-dollar sales for a Dorothy Stratten poster. There is, however, this huge difference between these figures: where Loman was damp with pathos, Snider burns with rage as he watches his discovery moving up and away from him. Seeing through the hypocrisy of those who build empires on sleaze, he cannot believe...