Word: dollarization
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...times you think you're built for it, and you're really not. The way to know? Put up your money. Not just a dollar; put up some real money. There's usually $10,000 per person riding each round when we play. Nine times out of 10, people give up--and they do that in life too. You got to call it, believe it and be ready to put your money...
...most visible partner in the love affair between Hollywood and Washington: she sang for Bill Clinton, she dined with Janet Reno, she buddied up to Colin Powell. Somewhere along the line, Streisand shifted gears from Political Animal to Very-Well-Paid Vegas Casino Act, making two multimillion-dollar New Year's appearances at MGM's Grand...
...Dallas suburb of Highland Park is particularly fine. Set on a steep, forested site in a neighborhood of conventionally swanky Texas mansions, the new house is a not-quite-severe collage of limestone, concrete and black steel, simultaneously grave and jazzy. Nor is it simply a multimillion-dollar one-liner: the entrance to the place is one thing (giant, portentous limestone chunks), the inside quite another (vast, airy volumes), and the rear (a huge, mirrorized steel plate) still another. Out back, a 60-ft. ramp projects uselessly and wonderfully up into the sky. With its impeccable detailing and rich, complex...
WINNERS STEVEN SPIELBERG In the summer, a billion-dollar popular hit: Jurassic Park. In the winter, an Oscar-contending critical coup: Schindler's List...
...West’s radical methodology, Princeton has given the professor a fair share of its own detractors. The September 2005 cover of Princeton’s humor magazine The Princeton Tiger, for instance, features a vaguely offensive caricature of Cornel West playing beer pong and wearing a golden dollar sign pennant around his neck...