Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elsewhere in Massachusetts, local officials are scraping for every dollar. In Blackstone, town fathers are considering wiping out weekly trash pickups. In Framingham, officials are planning to close one of the ten elementary schools and, in an effort to reduce the fleet of school buses, they may ask students to stand while riding to school. In Foxboro, the police department even considered destroying its dog Butch, to help cope with budget cuts imposed by Proposition 2½. After a public outcry, Butch was spared...
...object of "Killer" is "to kill without being killed." For a two-dollar registration fee, participants receive a plastic water pistol and an official entry card with the name of their intended target. To "kill" his victim, the assassin must show his water pistol and say. "You're dead...
...last fall, long-graduated protesters won their biggest single victory. Following a policy adopted in the heat of the controversy, Harvard sold more than $50 million in notes and a certificate of deposit after Citibank announced it would join a consortium of banks extending a multimillion dollar line of credit to South Africa...
...world of nervous money, the dollar's new strength and gold's weakness could pass quickly. If the world's moneymen decide that the Reagan Administration's inflation policy is too weak or that it will be killed in Congress, the recent currency adjustments might change again. Said Mohammed Ali Abalkhail, the Saudi Arabian Finance Minister, last week: "We are still looking for clearer indication of what policy Reagan will really follow. That will determine whether the current surge in the dollar is a temporary phenomenon. " - By Christopher Byron...
...these requirements are confining, no one at TOT seems to notice, or care. The company started with $35,000 from the Moody Foundation, bankrolled by the estate of a multimillionaire Texas financier; TOT's success has been so swift and sure it is now flourishing on a million-dollar budget. Some of that comes from revenues and some from grants by Texaco, Exxon, First City Bancorporation of Texas, Dresser Industries and Levi Strauss, as well as the state of Texas and the National Endowment for the Arts. This year the group comes East for the first time (stops will...