Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more hurtful to farmers has been the worldwide recession. This and the strength of the dollar abroad have cut into U.S. agricultural exports, which normally account for nearly one-fourth of farm income. But so far this year exports of corn, for example, are down about onefourth. The Soviet Union, stung by the 1980 U.S. grain embargo (which one economic consulting firm estimates cost American agribusiness $22 billion), has spread out its purchases among more suppliers. Of the 43 million metric tons of grain it is expected to import from the West this year, the Soviet Union...
Officials said that several landlords complained that the dollar amount of the increase for their building was incorrect and that the landlords' claims are being investigated before the tenants' notices are mailed...
...issue is not the dollar value but the method of appraisal," said Jacqueline O'Neill, assistant to the vice-president for community and government affairs...
...obvious beneficiaries of devaluation so far have been the Mexi can businesses that are nestled along the U.S. border from Tijuana to Matamoros. They are enjoying a virtual stampede of U.S. consumers, who are swarming south from San Diego to cash in on lower prices resulting from a U.S. dollar that suddenly buys nearly twice as much in Mexico as it did a month ago. Bargains include unleaded gasoline, which now sells for 87? per gal., vs. $1.50 in early February, and white rice, which goes for a mere 30? per Ib. By contrast, business in many big shopping centers...
...their duration the two trials provided continuing entertainment for a city bored with, or unsalted by Celtic success. One could follow the drama, daily, on page one, or on a slow day in court, in Metro Region An envelope stuffed with 10 hundred-dollar bills--which James F. O'Leary, general manager of the MBTA, counted out one by one at the witness stand--and a little black case, a calculator case, containing syringes tainted with insulin--which von Bulow's stepson found in the accused's locked closet--became tangible symbols the masses could feel Frank J. Walters...