Word: dollarization
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...twirling the enormous tassles on her nipples. Impressive, I had to admit. But it wasn’t art. Other burlesque dancers followed, adding a heavy dose of politics. There was Miss Dirty Martini, who came onstage dressed as blind justice and proceeded to gorge herself on dollar bills. It was an indictment of the Bush administration, and she had an American flag covering her crotch. Krylon Superstar started off by giving members of the audience a lap dance and then sang a protest song. The sparkler he put up his ass had, I think, something to do with America...
...jets as now planned, while hyping the threats to justify the buy. China and India are, in the Air Force's eyes, the 21st century equivalent of the Soviet Union, requiring billions in new aircraft that even a hawkish Republican President doesn't think are needed. More critically, every dollar spent on supersonic aircraft is a dollar that isn't spent on the kind of troops and materiel needed to wage the two irregular wars the nation is now fighting, and which many experts predict will be the kinds of wars fought for the next generation...
...have heard of the companies that Godin, in his distinctively tangy style, chooses to single out for praise. After all, CafePress.com which sells millions of dollars' worth of imprinted items every month, and Etsy.com a site specializing in handmade crafts and artifacts, are hardly General Electric. But being small yet scalable is the springboard of Web companies. "Why didn't American Express invent (or buy) PayPal?" Godin asks. "Why didn't Barnes & Noble become Amazon?" Because they were busy running multibillion-dollar businesses...
...Dominguez says that even though he and his committee were of the opinion that parts of HMI should go, their primary work is in broadening Harvard’s international focus. He points to one of his committee’s recent initiatives—a $1 million dollar project geared toward South Asia—as an example...
Even in today’s world of multi-billion dollar university endowments and generous research grants, $1 billion can still make a tremendous splash in the life-sciences pool. A new bill in the Massachusetts legislature will provide $1 billion in public funds to life-sciences research. This bill—released by Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 in May of 2007—would allocate $500 million for the construction of research facilities, $250 million for fellowships and grants, and $250 million in tax incentives over the next 10 years. Aimed at promoting Massachusetts...