Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sleep while apparently carrying on a conversation.... Immerglich calls to her side Dampfboot, the tinsmith of the gods, and bids him make for her a tarnhelm or invisible cap which will enable her to talk to people without their understanding a word she says. For a dollar and a half extra, Dampfboot throws in a magic ring which renders its wearer insensible...
Small business can more profitably invest its research dollar in the application of previously made discoveries, he added...
Some 500 Western banks and the Polish government last week were playing a multibillion-dollar game of financial chicken. On the one side, some American and European financiers contemplated seizing Polish bank accounts, ships or airliners if the Warsaw government fails to make a $500 million interest payment by the end of the year. If just one of the banks started to grab Polish assets, it could set off a dash for cash that would threaten the stability of international banking by calling down an avalanche of lawsuits, tightening credit around the world, and perhaps causing some financial failures...
...Million Dollar Quartet (Sun) In December 1956, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash did a little casual singing in a Memphis studio. Perkins is hardly discernible; Cash can't really be heard; but Elvis and Jerry Lee go toe to toe on a little R&B and a lot of gospel. It's like going to chapel inside a Seeburg...
...getting top dollar is only one Golden goal. She also puts a priority on assuring that her clients will be satisfied with the way they are portrayed. One key is finding a reputable producer. Golden persuaded Client Sonia Johnson, who was expelled from the Mormon Church in 1979 because of her outspoken support of the Equal Rights Amendment, to pick Norman Lear, an ardent ERA backer. Says Golden: "It wouldn't have mattered if he had offered only one half the money that anyone else...