Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...economy grew nearly 5% in the first quarter, while unemployment has fallen to 4.7%, the lowest since 2001. But the price of gas isn't a mere macroeconomic figure. It's a pocketbook item that consumers feel every week. The economy required about 27% less energy to produce a dollar of GDP last year than it did in 1986, according to the Department of Energy. But gas prices are hurting consumers because real wage growth has declined over the past four years. The American Automobile Association estimated that the average driver's fuel costs will increase...
...Indian kid finally do something wrong?” Everyone’s a pundit when it comes to Viswanathan, waxing self-righteous. Viswanathan has even been compared to Barry Bonds and the Duke lacrosse team. To be sure, some degree of criticism is warranted, even needed. Half-million dollar book deals are not signed every day—by a seventeen-year-old, no less—and this type of success must necessarily be yoked to a high level of scrutiny, lest we cheapen true achievement. But treating Viswanathan with the same lack of judiciousness with which...
...public service campaign may seem unusual, but in many ways it simply reflects the country's desperate economic situation. During the oil crisis of the early 1980s - when Nigeria was awash with petro-dollars and its president boasted to his neighbors that his country's problem was not poverty but how to spend all its money - the Naira was almost worth $2. Since then, though, military rule, corruption and mismanagement have crippled the country's economy and its currency. One U.S dollar is now worth around 140 Naira...
...example, he said, a person serving as U.S. treasury secretary would not be successful if he or she frequently made off-the-cuff remarks. So during his time at the Treasury, he had largely confined his comments to the importance of a strong dollar and the independence of the Federal Reserve...
According to descriptions by LoVecchio that were verified by The Crimson, one cartoon shows a girl with an overly large nose chasing a dollar bill attached to a length of string while a Nazi hides around a corner holding the other end of the string and a baseball bat. In another image, a man, genitals exposed, dangles a piece of steak before a seeing-eye dog to lure a young, blind girl...