Word: dollarize
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...need? Or find a way to get the multiple systems already out there to talk to each other? It would be a task to make Reagan's Star Wars plan seem quite manageable. But that is only the beginning; really hard is going to be getting this multi-billion dollar juggernaut to actually save us money. (Read "Faith and Healing: A Forum...
Harvard’s multi-million dollar Allston development fund has been all but wiped out by the financial crisis, University officials said last week—likely scuttling the hopes of some Harvard faculty and administrators that its money could be diverted toward their own strapped budgets...
...shortage of rooms to rent in the Old Town. Budget hotels and hostels are mostly clustered in Getsemani. Midrange and upscale accommodations can be found everywhere, many in El Centro or San Diego; the latter was once a middle-class neighborhood but is now peppered with million-dollar homes like the one 17 of us rented: a 200-year-old, eight-bedroom, blue row house (Casa Santissimo, San Diego), which goes for $2,500 per week...
...These visits have a pretty good payoff. A 2005 analysis by the Rand Corp. found that for every dollar spent providing nurse visitors to high-risk families, the government could save nearly $6 in welfare, juvenile-justice and health-care costs down the line. Dividends for the families' well-being may be even higher. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.) in 1998 found that children in upstate New York whose mothers were visited by nurses during pregnancy and two years after birth were 59% less likely to have been arrested 15 years later, compared...
...China's appetites are good news for manufacturers in demand-depressed Europe. Last Wednesday, Beijing's Commerce Minister Chen Deming arrived in Germany with executives from about 90 Chinese companies, on a multi-billion-dollar shopping trip around Europe. The delegates signed more than $10 billion worth of deals in Germany alone, and another $400,000 worth of deals on a brief stop in Switzerland. Next stop was Spain, where the Chinese party bought about $320 million worth of goods ranging from auto parts to olive oil. Finally, in Britain they signed deals worth about $2 billion, including ordering...