Word: dollarization
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...Your Oats. Jamba Juice is introducing oatmeal to the menu nationwide (it's already been previewed in Chicago stores) in January, giving Starbucks a run for your breakfast dollar. Unlike Starbucks', Jamba's oatmeal is slow-cooked, not instant, and you'll have a choice of fruit toppings - apple-cinnamon crumble, blueberry-blackberry or fresh banana...
...crippling legacy that is proving hard to unlearn. Many Cabinet ministers still sign off on minutiae like restocking their office supplies, while the lack of digitization in some government bureaus is almost Monty Python-esque. In Diyala, the governorate's billion-dollar budget (the amount is cumulative because the budget has not been executed over three fiscal years) was being administered by a single accountant who had "a pencil, an eraser and a huge ledger," says Hunt...
...flight of hundreds of thousands of Iraq's best and brightest during the war (and before) has also resulted in many sectors severely lacking in professionals. During recent talks between the Electricity Ministry and General Electric over a multibillion-dollar deal to pump 7,000 megawatts of sorely needed power through Iraq's fitful grid, the ministry sent a negotiating team of only three people. Says Barnich, who helped facilitate the talks: "There's just nobody there...
...cost the U.S. taxpayers $1 trillion - and counting - is unlikely to spread much Christmas cheer in these tough economic times. A trio of recent reports - none by the Bush Administration - suggests that sometime early in the Obama presidency, spending on the wars started since 9/11 will pass the trillion-dollar mark. Even after adjusting for inflation, that's four times more than America spent fighting World War I, and more than 10 times the cost of 1991's Persian Gulf War (90% of which was paid for by U.S. allies). The war on terrorism looks set to surpass the costs...
...fortnight, and then it went up to $400," he explains. "The money was deposited at the local Elektra [a chain store that provides low-cost banking]". His modest wage shows how many cartel foot soldiers such as Cobo live a world apart from the extravagant kingpins with their million-dollar mansions and fleets of luxury cars, but it was still five times the country's minimum wage. And it's the swelling of the narco armies with tens of thousands of low-paid recruits that helps explain the scale of the bloodshed here, with more than 5,300 drug-related...