Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...took over in October of 2002 after her parents were killed in a helicopter accident. At the time, she was taking a year off; when she learned of their deaths, she realized she would have until the following fall to figure out how to run a multi-million dollar business from across the Atlantic. The company is famous for its bread’s taste and consistency, its 70-year history, and its group of celebrity devotees that reportedly includes Gerard Depardieu, Steven Spielberg, and Robert de Niro. In addition to turning in problem sets and hanging out with friends...
...After just barely missing an outright election victory in the Nov. 7 election, Bonilla lost the runoff thanks to an energized Democratic base, a million-dollar campaign infusion from the Democratic Party and a call to arms by President Clinton, who came to San Antonio to campaign for Rodriguez. The victory underlined the popularity of both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Lone Star State, and could even enhance Hillary's prospects in the 2008 presidential race. "Bill and Hilary are both popular in South Texas - that's a given," said former Democratic Party staffer and political analyst Andy Hernandez...
...Beijing at the head of a high-powered U.S. economic delegation that includes six cabinet ministers, the U.S. Trade Representative and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - and he's under pressure to deliver. The U.S. urgently needs Beijing to allow its currency to appreciate in value against the dollar, to put a dent in Washington's $200 billion-plus annual trade deficit with China. And Beijing is not inclined to comply...
...Beijing about closing down the dozens of factories churning out pirated movies: "This time they are really going to do something about it!" Strangely enough it's still possible to buy beautifully boxed sets of the first three seasons of Lost at stores all over Beijing for about one dollar a DVD. And Chinese negotiators like to point out to their U.S. counterparts that during the 19th century when American was going through its own period of economic adolescence, Washington spent decades ignoring pleas from Britain that it pass copyright laws...
...Democratic voices in the Senate will be that of Charles Schumer, co-sponsor of a temporarily postponed bill that would impose heavy tariffs on Chinese products if Beijing doesn't allow the renminbi to rise from what Schumer and others say is its current artificially low level against the dollar. Paulson may remind the Chinese, also, that the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is not exactly known for her sympathetic stance towards Beijing...