Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost both its simplicity and its moral force. "In order to get a freeze, we have to be fair about it," said G.O.P. Congressman Denny Smith of Oregon. "The President's plan isn't going anywhere." Republicans joined Democrats in insisting that cutting domestic programs in real-dollar terms (after accounting for inflation) was unacceptable. Dole suggested that more, not less, money was needed for child health programs. Republican Senators Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota and John Danforth of Missouri introduced a resolution to protect food stamps and child nutrition from further cuts...
...parents to the point of tedium, seemingly overwhelmed by the rush of information from newly interviewed Johnson friends and classmates. Similarly, he loses a sense of proportion when he uses the same dramatic, overheated the tone to reveal both Johnson's finagling of a college election and multi-million-dollar Brown & Root schemes...
...tradeoff between selection and price. For example, Paperback Booksmith carries 10 of the 13 books required for Literature and Arts A-19 "Fiction, Ideology, and Myth: The Novel in the Twentieth Century," but sells nine of them at the same price as the Coop, and one for a dollar more. WordsWorth 2 has only two of the 13 works--The Counterfeiters by Andre' Gide, and The Castle by Franz Kafka--but undersells the Coop by a combined total of $7 for the pair...
...very interested" when he and a small group of scientists proposed a scheme to produce the W particle. "There was a hell of a lot of opposition when we submitted our proposal," Rubbia said, noting that Harvard was among the institutions that declined to sponsor the multi-million dollar project...
Hoffa was presumably murdered in 1975, when he disappeared without a trace. But Hoffa's successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, continued to allow Dorfman to control the union's pension fund, and Dorfman prospered in the murky, billion-dollar swamp of Teamsters loans and land deals. A dapper dresser fond of a round of golf and the company of old cronies, he lived with his wife Lynn in a $750,000 home in the Chicago suburb of Riverwoods...