Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really feel retail sales are down this year," Sullivan said, a trend she says is making retailers pay more attention to the problems of shoplifting and employee theft. "Ten cents of every dollar spent in retail stores goes to fight shoplifting." she added...
...Ivies were evicted to give complete control of Division 1-A to the College Football Association, a splinter group including 61 of the nation's most powerful football schools. The top dogs in college football--concerned above all with controlling the game's multi-million-dollar television contract--will no longer be at all accountable to universities that place football in its correct perspective in campus life. With this concession to the professionalism already rampant in the sport, the NCAA will likely deemphasize the regulation and enforcement of recruiting violations and other transgressions...
...will be like records, albeit (at an average price of $69) expensive records. Nowadays the smart money has wised up, and the action has moved to rentals. Why pay the price to own Ordinary People when you can pay a fraction of the cost (sometimes as little as a dollar a day) to rent it? Now the movie companies want in. "We couldn't continue to invest millions of dollars to feed this market and not get any of it back," says Leon Knize, senior marketing vice president for Warner Home Video, explaining why his company has switched from...
Such a plan echoes an industry policy in the late 1950s that required a $3 dollar fee from travelers who failed to keep their reservations. The airlines abandoned the program when they found that it cost $5 to collect the fine and also caused ill will among flyers. An effort to counter no-shows through overbooking flights encountered turbulence. Enraged passengers and consumer advocates forced federal regulators to pass a rule that fined carriers for overbooking flights. Any agreement the airlines reach at their scheduled meeting probably could not take effect in time for the Christmas and New Year...
DIED. Walter Knott, 91, entrepreneur who converted a California roadside fruit stand into Knott's Berry Farm, a multimillion-dollar enterprise; in Buena Park, Calif. Knott, who once marketed jellies and jams and expanded into fried-chicken dinners, opened Knott's Berry Farm in 1940. The family-owned operation now includes an amusement park, which draws more than 5 million visitors a year, a number exceeded only by the Disney theme parks in Florida and California...