Word: dollarized
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That new populist bravado, which Chávez has backed up with a multibillion- dollar social-spending program at home, has spread to South American countries like Bolivia, where two Presidents have resigned in less than two years after raucous protests calling for the nationalization of vast, newly discovered natural-gas reserves. Says Amy Myers Jaffe, an analyst at the Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston: "Chávez has seemingly become a leader who can galvanize antiglobalization agendas anywhere...
...shift are set to receive an extra 50 cents per hour, Snegroff said. While janitors currently receive the same pay regardless of shift, the union had originally aimed for 7 percent higher wages for those working the late-night shift, which would have amounted to just under an extra dollar per hour...
...Enrichment has subsidized tickets for over 3,400 Cambridge Public School students spanning grades K-12 to attend theatrical performances, cultural events and museum exhibitions. “Every year I’ve been a part of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, we’ve raised thousands of dollars for students to get an education in the arts,†said Theatricals Vice President Peter A. Dodd ’06. “At the end of every show, two dress-clad actors stand in the back of the theater holding out wigs and asking for money...
...when Eastwood tried to buy the rights, he discovered that Steven Spielberg already had them, and so he moved on instead to Million Dollar Baby. Then, backstage at the 2004 Academy Awards (at which his Mystic River was a multiple nominee), Eastwood encountered Spielberg, and before the evening was out, they agreed to a Flags co-production, with Eastwood directing. Shortly thereafter, the project began to elicit an uncommon, almost obsessive, interest from its director. He has not often attempted fact-based movies, and he had never undertaken one that contained such huge combat scenes. He began to read more...
...feeling about something. You have a premonition that you can get something decent out of it," he says. "You just have to trust your gut." He asked Paul Haggis, who wrote Flags, if he would like to write the Japanese version as well. The writer of Million Dollar Baby and director of Crash, Haggis was overbooked but thought an aspiring young Japanese-American screenwriter, Iris Yamashita, who had helped him research Flags, might be able to do it. She met with Eastwood, and once again his gut spoke; he gave her the job and liked her first draft so much...