Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former New York Senator, now Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance. Although he had been active in the family businesses at the time some of the alleged violations occurred, he had severed his formal business relationships while holding public office. He is a defendant, however, in multimillion-dollar civil suits by shareholders who say they were defrauded...
Women still make 59 cents for every dollar that men make. Women still make up the vast majority of workers employed in low-paying clerical and service jobs. The current tide of conservatism is pushing women back towards complete economic dependence. This movement has failed to realize that women's roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades: a majority of women are sole heads of households. These women must have equal opportunities to support themselves and their families...
...city's most popular progressive politician. All five candidates who backed the condo law--Sullivan, Saundra Graham, Francis H. Duehay '55, David Wylie, and Vellucci--were reelected, and the CCA candidate seen as most ambivalent about the statute--Wendy Abt--fared very, very poorly, racking up fewer votes per dollar spent campaigning than anyone in the race. All these are arguments that will be hashed out in the months ahead, as the CCA decides what direction it will take on housing issues...
...multimillion-dollar estate in Riyadh, Sheik Abdul Aziz Tawajiri, a commander of the Saudi Internal security force under Prince Abdullah, delivered an emotional warning. Its essence: Saudi Arabia's aspirations to pan-Arab leadership are incompatible with close Saudi-American friendship, so long as the U.S. remains Israel's chief supporter. Within Saudi Arabia, warned Tawajiri, "a generation gap is developing. Perceptions of the U.S. are changing, slowly perhaps, but for the worse." As most of his ten sons sat silently near by, the sheik, who is in his early 70s, asserted that they "have sizzling arguments with me. They...
...fraud and organized crime] and to let people see there are women in the FBI, there are blacks in the FBI. This, we hope, would go a long way as a recruiting tool. It also is a way of telling people what they're getting for their tax dollar...