Word: dollarization
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...packaged it in colorful plastic bottles. Although it's copiously drunk by Singaporean government ministers, often at media-saturated events like the country's National Day celebrations, brands like Evian and Perrier have little to fear. Singapore's officials are more interested in making a point than a dollar, the point being that water is a valuable, renewable resource...
...couple sold their business to General Mills for $6 million. Nancy stayed on as vice president, and her taste for bright colors and classic clothing continued to inform a brand that has become a billion-dollar empire, with devotees including First Ladies Barbara Bush and Michelle Obama...
...happy to remind you, "Those are the colors of the team!" Spend enough time with him, and you may end up convinced that the whole of creation was designed to color-coordinate with the Cowboys jerseys. But at the end of the day, the real Cowboys color is dollar green...
...currency. As I said, we need our export sector to recover - late last year I had more unemployed workers in one province (Guangdong) than you have in your entire country - so forget about pressuring us to revalue the renminbi. We allowed it to increase in value against the dollar during the Bush years, but until there's evidence of a global economic recovery, we're not budging on currency. So continued silence on that front is golden...
...economy. And there are ancillary industries feeding on the success of Beck and others like him. Both left- and right-wing not-for-profit groups operate as self-anointed media watchdogs, and one of the largest of these - the liberal group Media Matters for America - has a multimillion-dollar budget. Staff members monitor Beck's every public utterance, poised to cherry-pick the most inflammatory sentences. (Conservative outfits do the same for the likes of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.) These nuggets are used in turn to rev up donations to political parties and drive ratings for the endless rounds...