Word: dollarization
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...Noble, the meager funding is not just a practical limitation, but a distressing sign of how Western governments undervalue Interpol. "Neither the U.S. nor any other country realizes that this is a billion-dollar-a-year problem, not a $50-million-a-year problem," he says. "They don't understand that Interpol is cost-effective." Noble spends weeks every year at police conferences and government hearings, pressing the point that Interpol's worldwide reach makes it uniquely positioned to collate data on everything from stolen motor-vehicle licenses and lost passports to fingerprints and DNA samples. Yet there is still...
...years you are: Washing dollar bills like laundry...
...Foundation, founded by Li last year, asks supporters to donate one dollar per month in support of international disaster relief, among other efforts...
...other loyal raulistas, especially the military chief of staff, General Alvaro Lopez Miera, 63. Raul's son-in-law, Colonel Luis Alberto Rodriguez, is being groomed to take over the broad economic and business policy duties already held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, including enterprises like the multibillion-dollar tourist concern Gaviota, which has helped keep Cuba afloat since the demise of its longtime benefactor, the Soviet Union...
...relationship, sexual caution and money troubles seem to go hand in hand, in the '30s as in the '80s. A common saying among sex therapists is "sex goes up with the stock market." The free spirits of the '60s are the busy careerists of the '80s, hustling for a dollar in a competitive job market. "The students you talk to want to do well," says retired Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "They want to do more than pass their courses, and they want more than a job. They want a career. Sex and drugs are distractions, things that are no longer...