Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could do little to reverse in any case. Meanwhile, the U.S. is in no better position to impose its will on its robust NATO allies, especially a West Germany that has become the engine of change on the Continent, pouring the deutsche mark into Eastern Europe the way the dollar once flowed to the Western nations under the Marshall Plan. All through the summit the German question hung in the air, although the two leaders agreed to keep their public remarks on Eastern Europe to a minimum...
...There was, of course, a rambling dispatch from Lake Wobegon (Pastor Ingqvist, Keillor reported with approval, shocked his congregation at Thanksgiving by urging them to "sin boldly"). Tom Keith, P.H.C.'s sound-effects wizard, was on hand to provide, among other arcanities, the splash of George Washington's silver dollar falling short into the Rappahannock. The show's funniest sketch, a serial, produced a new star, actress Ivy Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything (a shoe-box apartment), move to Seattle and marry...
Hsiao said the Holworthy students decided during a study break to follow last year's custom of hanging the lights. "Everyone gave either a string of lights or a dollar" toward the project, he said...
...financial report was presented to the Board of Overseers this Sunday, as the alumni-elected governing body met with some of Harvard's largest donors to discuss the plans for the multi-billion dollar fundraising effort...
This February, RJR-Nabisco became a privatecompany after a multi-billion dollar takeover byKohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Company (KKR), aWall Street leveraged buyout firm. Harvard, whichwas invested in KKR, now owns part of RJR throughits involvement in the buyout, but can no longervote on its policies...