Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Metropolitan District Commission operates skating rinks in Medford, Somerville, Revere, and Newton. They are open during the afternoon and for evening sessions, each with a one-dollar admission charge--$2.75 if you rent skates as well...
...every dollar the government lends a student through the Washington-based GSI., it spends another dollar in administrative coats, estimated William O'Hara, president of the Bryant College of Business Administration, in testimony before the National Commission on Student Financial Aid (NCSFA...
...after a ten-minute ride into town, the jetting junketers are at the crap and blackjack tables of Resorts International's huge Casino Hotel. Resorts expects each of them to wager at least $1,000 and is privately counting on earning an average of about 18? on each dollar bet before they are whisked back home at the end of the evening...
Once in the casinos, from the glittering Golden Nugget to the garishly ornate Caesars Boardwalk Regency down the street, the visiting gamblers can be seen pressed six and eight deep against the gaming tables; at every wall, hordes of people furiously feed quarters and dollar coins into slot machines, sometimes operating two capricious bandits at a time...
...ally itself openly with the regime against the ANC. In September, CIA chief William Casey met with South African leaders in Pretoria, where he was urged to help them force neighboring countries such as Mozambique and Angola to end their support for the ANC. The recent U.S.-backed billion-dollar loan to South African will help it enforce a hastily planned series of internal repression policies...