Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazines and a daily racing-tip sheet be worth billions of dollars? Maybe so, if the buyer is Keith Rupert Murdoch. Last week the Australian-born press baron agreed to buy Triangle Publications, which puts out TV Guide (circ. 17.1 million), the Daily Racing Form (123,000) and Seventeen (1.9 million), from Walter Annenberg, the California businessman and philanthropist, for $3 billion. While TV Guide may be the undisputed king of television listings and boast the largest circulation of any U.S. magazine, media experts concur that Murdoch is paying a premium price that will add to his already considerable debt...
...monster may be the biggest thing to hit Bishopville (pop. 3,500) since Hometown Boy Felix ("Doc") Blanchard left in the 1940s and became an All- American fullback at West Point. Hunters with shotguns combed the swamp, and a local radio station offered a million-dollar reward for the creature's capture. Fourteen-inch footprints appeared on a dusty road; Sheriff Liston Truesdale intends to send plaster casts to the FBI, eventually. He may also ask Davis to take a polygraph. But no one is in much of a hurry to solve this mystery. "I hope they never catch...
...heart of the welfare dilemma, according to Ellwood, is that the system attempts to place a dollar value on complex social and economic factors. As he emphasizes again and again, you can't throw money at a problem and expect it to go away...
...true that the decision to have night games at Wrigley didn't come from an urge to open up the field to the masses. The almighty dollar was the motivating factor. But then again, if it weren't for greed, there would be no such thing as the Chicago Cubs to begin with...
...Belmont parental expectations are high. Parents typically work in high- pressure, top-dollar professional jobs around Boston. In many families both parents work full time, as Josh's do. Success is trumpeted at Josh's school, as it is in Josh's family. More than one-third of the Maisels in his father's generation made Phi Beta Kappa. In Belmont some 90% of high school students go to college. Many fear dire consequences if they do not get into the "right" college, and competition for those cherished spots is keen. "In Belmont it's the gold medal or nothing...