Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fail to complete the space station, it will adversely affect our credibility with future international partners," says NASA administrator Michael Griffin. Space modules from Japan and the European Union are already at the Kennedy Space Center, waiting for the space shuttle to carry the sophisticated, multi-billion dollar laboratories to the Space Station...
...remember subway tokens? The two-color chunky metal coins cost about a dollar back in 1988,the same year I read Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, a truthful book about the hard social and political realities of New York. I read most of it "on site" in my call room at Harlem Hospital. One night, the phone in that room rang and I was told to come down to the Emergency Room fast. They had a 16-year-old boy there who was bleeding to death; his leg had been run over by a subway train...
...Boris Yeltsin has had six budget surpluses in a row, just agreed to speed repayment of its foreign debt, and has socked away over $70 billion in a rainy-day fund. More than 6 million Russians a year now take foreign holidays. There are more than 100,000 U.S.-dollar millionaires. It's also true, as Lyne argues, that Russians have rarely been so free. "They are vastly freer than the Chinese. They can live well and have fun. They can read, watch, say what they like and access the Internet." Perhaps unsurprisingly, in polls Putin's approval ratings...
...agreed to pay restitution to dealers and individuals affected by his thefts. The maps stolen by Smiley from Houghton will be recovered, according to the Justice Department, but the location of the five still-missing and yet-unaccounted-for maps is “a fifty-million dollar question,” according to Brainard. Connecticut U.S. Attorney Kevin O’Connor, whose office is prosecuting the case against Smiley, said he has no reason to believe that Smiley stole more maps than the 97 that are listed in his plea agreement. O’Connor added that Smiley?...
...though a far cry from the sparkling metropolises of Shanghai and Hong Kong, is hardly austere. Ladies in posh dresses and heels browse marbled department stores. McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken are expensive eats here, serving meals that might cost up to three or four U.S. dollars. And the prices for luxury items rival those of American stores. But for all its commercialism, it’s hard to believe that the minimum wage is in Luoyang is about 300 yuan per month, equivalent to about $37. It’s especially difficult to imagine what this...