Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds up to an uncompromising future for the man who claimed he had Philadelphia's underworld under his thumb. Myers' chances of taking this election, according to the Inquirer's political reporter, stand at "a million to one"--a slightly higher figure than Abscam dangled in dollar signs before Myers' eyes...
...Life movement run deep. While they ridicule measures like Reagan's promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they privately fear the worst. And they desperately hope that the important issues--overt social and economic discrimination (women still earn only 59 cents for every man's dollar)--will get lost in the shuffle...
...libertarian notion that self-interest is at the root of all actions, and, for example, working for other people's happiness can be explained away solely as an effort to assuage your conscience. You will not win this stage of the quarrel. Libertarians, many of them, wear dollar signs on their ties. They read Ayn Rand, and think happiness is this valley where everybody makes profits--unless they're unfit and hence lose money. Don't bother calling them bloodless assholes, because they think that being bloodless is a virtue. They may even accuse you of being captive to your...
...little irritated by that," he admits. "You say to yourself: 'How intelligent are the people who are writing this? Do they lack the intelligence to take a look at a state that is the size of California that was run successfully for eight years-a multibillion-dollar business?' I was intelligent enough to surround myself myself as Governor with the kind of expertise and the kind of people who could make these things happen." He has a point. His administration of California was competent, and he did not let ideological principles prevent him from doing what...
...American music business has since evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry aimed largely at an expanding older audience. It now takes about $250,000 to establish a new band, so the major labels, their sights firmly locked on platinum-plus sales figures, are less and less willing to take a chance on adventurous music; the new independents are stepping into the breach...