Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will come to represent a new kind of urban renewal. Last week state health commissioner Dr. David Axelrod announced that about two-thirds of the area where more than 21,000 tons of chemical wastes were buried in the 1940s and 1950s would be habitable again after a multimillion-dollar cleanup is completed next year...
...begin is at the beginning -- the earlier the intervention the better the results. Greater spending for prenatal care and neonatal care is the first step. Dukakis' proposal to spend $100 million for prenatal care for mothers not covered by health insurance is a welcome acknowledgment of this. Each dollar spent on prenatal care saves more than $3 later in the care for babies with low birth weight. The same thing goes for remedial education. The earlier a child gets help, the less radical the later discrepancy between children of poverty and children of affluence. Head Start (which only reaches...
...Abdulatif, 26, fingered the yellowing gauze wrapped around his left leg. Still lodged deep in his left thigh was a plastic bullet, Israel's latest ammunition against the ten-month-old intifadeh (uprising) by Palestinians in the occupied territories. Abdulatif pulled aside the bandage to reveal a reddish silver dollar-size hole in his flesh. Explained a nurse: "There is no difference between plastic and real bullets. They both enter the body and destroy...
...costly kiosks? According to Justin Harmon, director of commmunications and publications at Princeton, their kiosk is part of a multi-million dollar renovation of Alexander Hall, the main campus concert facility, and the adjacent Stockton Court plaza. The redesigned entrance area will eliminate traffic congestion and give visitors "a sense of place," he said...
...election, the Reagan campaign launched a $5 million dollar television advertising blitz aimed at discrediting liberals. A bloated, white-haired, red-faced politician--an obvious caricature of then-Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill--was shown trying to drive a sputtering jalopy running out of gas. In 1984, the Republicans successfully added the "tax-and-spend label" to the Democratic image, and liberals began to call themselves "neo-liberals" and "progressives...