Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will throng the news-stands this week want to look at women's bodies. So why don't they buy one of the many truly smutty magazines available? Surely they yield more satisfaction for the dollar...
...Richmond case began in 1983, when the black-dominated city council approved an ordinance setting aside 30% of the dollar amount of its municipal projects for minority-owned construction firms. The council found that although Richmond's population was half black, less than 1% of all public- works contracts had gone to minority firms. But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the majority, charged that the city had not specifically proved a level of past discrimination that would support its 30% set-aside rule. Wrote O'Connor: "An amorphous claim that there has been past discrimination in a particular...
...Kabul grain silo, which usually holds a stock of 20,000 tons, has been empty at several points in the past few weeks. The poor are especially vulnerable because they cannot afford to shop at relatively well-stocked black-market outlets where bread is sold for more than a dollar a loaf, ten times the official price...
...weapons. However, that has not stanched a flood of firepower that travels from Southern states, where guns are quickly and easily bought, to Northern ones, where sales are more tightly regulated. Firearms bought in gun shops in Florida, Texas and Virginia -- the three largest supply states -- fetch top dollar when sold on the black market to drug dealers, street gangs and assorted thugs in Washington and New York City...
...firm, considered highly innovative, has executed multi-million dollar projects at Swarthmore College, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. The study is "almost finished" and ready for administrative review, says the architect in charge of the project...