Word: dollarized
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...together. Anything in between these two in scale seems to fall through the cracks, and for good reason. Venues from the Quincy Collective to Loker Pub Nights to individual Houses host student bands most weeks. And alcohol at Final Clubs and in-room parties is even cheaper than one dollar a draft. Without novelty but still sporting a hefty price tag, the Afterparty turned into a financial sinkhole that benefited a meager number of Harvard students. The lesson to be learned seems to be that, at least in recent memory, the UC is at its best spending...
This is not a perfect solution, and there are inherent dangers in a non-governmental army. Accountable to no one and fighting for top dollar, mercenary armies can surrender their loyalties to the highest bidder. But recognize that it is in their best interests to be on the side of states rather than against them; if they do a poor job, they will get fired; if they turn against us, we will turn against them. But more importantly, recognize that we have run out of ideas, and perhaps it is only an extreme solution that will solve an extreme problem...
...passersby, who probably only notice the shut-down restaurant and latchkey children playing in the streets. There, she will wait for requests from across New England. “Dancing,” she calls it. She gives lap dances to grooms at their bachelor parties as they tuck dollar bills under her thong, going the full monty for men she’s never met before...
...take home a paycheck, but in her black gym bag, she stuffs the huge pile of ones she has made in tips. Bambi’s grand goals—a degree, some time in the Peace Corps, a family of her own—all depend on those dollar bills...
...galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped a town triumph over a multimillion-dollar corporate polluter...