Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assume that the Essay "Women Are Getting Out of Hand" [July 18] was written in jest. However, I must respond to your closing comment: "Clearly the future belongs to women." With the ERA not passed, with women being paid only 59? for every dollar that men earn, and with reproductive freedom still threatened, it is hardly assured that "the future belongs to women...
...decided also is the level of future economic aid that the Administration will request for friendly Central American countries. Seeking to counter charges that his policy is veering toward militarism, the President put stress last week on economic aid. Said he at his news conference: "For every one dollar we provide for security assistance to that region, we provide three dollars for economic and human development." There have been published reports that the Administration would request an additional $400 million in military and economic aid for Central America next year, a 50% increase, over the amount requested for fiscal...
Some conservationists remain suspicious of the Administration's assets policy, and Interior Spokesman Harmon Kallman acknowledges that the new plan "does not mean that we're not going to sell any land. All we are saying is that we are out from under any dollar goals set by the asset-management program." Or as one Interior official bluntly put it, "This way we can assure everyone we're not under the policy thumb of some green kids. Our program will just piddle along in low gear...
...Last year a U.S. district court in Alabama ordered China to cough up to U.S. bondholders the unpaid principal plus the interest that has been mounting at 5% annually, a total of $41.3 million. Marks also has two suits against the Soviet Union involving $75 million in dollar-denominated bonds issued by the imperial Russian government. The bonds, held by U.S. investors, were repudiated by Moscow after the 1917 revolution. Daniel Collier, a Marks vice president, is not holding his breath. In his firm's offices, one of the Russian bonds is mounted, with a small hammer beside...
...comic books, are more adult and more insidious than TV. Unlike the pulpy, stapled American product, manga are well bound and published in paperback size. The drawings are cinematic, displaying heroes and heroines in explicit sexual and military-war adventures. In recent years, manga have grown into a billion-dollar publishing venture. Doraemon, an atomic-powered robot cat, makes Garfield look like something the human dragged in. Created in 1970, Doraemon has now appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies of his 17-volume sci-fi comic...