Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friends and associates were stunned by the charges and reports that he had left behind brokerage debts totaling $22 million. Said Delmar Cram, principal of Humboldt High School, where Lewellyn was once student body president: "It's shocking as heck. Morally, you would have bet your bottom dollar on him." Cram added that Lewellyn was an "ambitious boy with sights set on the stratosphere." The Iowa criminal investigation division and federal agents are not looking quite that far, but they are checking leads in Costa Rica and Hong Kong...
...commentary on the mentality and sensitivity of the American public that it is willing to equate the use of four-letter words with another four-letter word: star. The pollution that flows from this man should restrict him to blue night clubs rather than elevate him to top-dollar stardom...
...secular reruns from the self-confident and squeaky-clean '50s. Adults are likely to be wistful, and children intrigued, about a time when society's rules were clearer and conformity with them more satisfying-and when, as awestruck viewers of The Millionaire (1955-60) have learned, a dollar was really a dollar...
Terner defended his behavior, saying. "It's really important that the people in the community realize that we are playing against professionals. Tennis is not a gentleman's sport anymore. It's out of the country clubs and onto the streets. It's a multi-million dollar game. The core of the team--[senior Captain Adam] Beren. [junior Warren] Groomsman. Sands and me--knows what it takes to be a great, and we try to adopt to this mentality of toughness and extreme competitiveness...We don't feel that officials stand up for us so we have to stand...
...wearing secondhand clothes/ I sure hope Ed Meese sews." Among those cheering in the audience was Husband Ronald Reagan, 71, who laughed harder than anyone else, it seemed, when his wife accompanied the lines "Even my trench coat with fur collar/ Ronnie bought for ten cents on the dollar/ The china is the only thing that's new" by smashing a replica of a White House china plate on the floor...