Word: dollarize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their indie upbringing taught them to be tight with a dollar and careful about cash flow. A key strategy calls for building a formidable library that can spin off immediate revenues while providing fodder for various platforms. Former MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian--who flipped his studio three times--advised the Weinsteins to scoop up all the solid content they could get their hands on. The fickle nature of the movie business makes each film a gamble. Hence a large library reduces overall risk...
...elbow, as she rattles a handful of coconut rings. "I don't have a girlfriend," I reply. "You know why you don't have a girlfriend? It's because you don't buy her a present." The logic is hardly watertight, but her repartee is easily worth a dollar. After dusk, Phsar Chas hurtles into overdrive. No etymologist is required to explain the nature of adjoining Pub Street, a grid of red-tiled colonial town houses that has evolved into one of the most eclectic entertainment zones in Asia. There's the inevitable Irish pub, numerous spots punning...
...Perhaps it was taken out because how big this “sacrifice” will be is still anyone’s guess. It could be the cost of new windows (unlikely) or a multi-million dollar, multi-pronged effort by the entire University (likely). Thus, by forcing students to make a choice without the relevant costs, and insisting that the referendum contain specific propositions that will have specific costs to implement, the environmentalists have made a “yes” vote on their own referendum illogical; support for an undefined sacrifice is not much...
...credits Harvard with helping her store survive when it was struggling.Frank Kramer, the owner of the Harvard Book Store next door to Grolier, also believes the University, which is also his landlord, has been very supportive over the years.“They don’t charge top dollar rent,” he says. “When we have wanted to do things like expand, they have fostered that expansion.”Kramer is also the co-chair of Cambridge Local First, an organization dedicated to promoting local businesses instead of chains, and says that Harvard...
...still a very fragile country institutionally,” he said. “EU entry will bring some vitality, but it will bulldoze cultural identity.” The cultural loss would largely be attributed to rapid modernization, the consul said. Just outside Bucharest, the Romanian capital, billion dollar complexes and modern offices that are “ugly culturally” are already going up, he added. Dimancescu, a 1976 graduate of Harvard Business School, expressed further concern about the economic challenges the country would face. While the consul agreed that the integration would open the country?...