Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sanctions imposed in February have produced the gravest economic crisis in the history of Panama, which uses the U.S. dollar as its currency. Banks closed more than a month ago, and the government has been unable to pay its employees...
...manufacturer, in Long Beach, Calif. Ten years ago Thompson branched into sports promotion and became the leading sponsor of motor-sports events at arenas like the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl and Anaheim Stadium. However, his partnership with Promoter Mike Goodwin dissolved into a bitter series of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. In May 1986, Thompson won a judgment against Goodwin ultimately totaling almost $800,000. Goodwin declared bankruptcy later that year and failed...
DESCRIPTION: Summary of charges against Iran-contra suspects Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim; color illustrations: map of Iran backed by missiles; three men in see-no-evil, speak-no-evil, hear-no- evil pose stand at papershredder; three men holding dollar sign...
...more is at stake than the sale of a few multimillion-dollar machines. $ The country that leads the world in supercomputers and artificial intelligence will hold the keys to economic and technological development in the 1990s and beyond. Breakthroughs are waiting to be made in fields that range from genetic engineering to particle physics, from automated manufacturing to space exploration. There is even a chance that scientists will use the new computers to understand better the most complex machine of all, the human mind...
Indeed it was. As the guns sounded overseas, gallus-snapping Congressmen and dollar-a-year New Dealers, bullnecked racists and high-toned society hostesses, secretaries and alphabet-soup bureaucrats from the OPA, BEW, CAS and OEM all began to audition for their roles in history. The little Southern town abruptly became an arena of contradictions, and Brinkley surveys them...