Word: dollarless
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...dollar holdings was a two-edged sword. It brought much needed hard currency into Cuba, but also split what had been a largely egalitarian society into two classes: the haves, who had access to dollars earned in the tourist industry or sent by relatives in the U.S.; and dollarless have-nots, who could not shop in the new hard-currency stores...
...force the White House to make budget cuts of up to $8 billion while the Senate refuses to cooperate in the ploy. While the conferees scheduled yet another meeting for this week, the District of Columbia government, the Agency for International Development and the Office of Economic Opportunity -technically dollarless since Oct. : struggled to meet payrolls and maintain normal operations. The first casualties were five OEO community-action programs in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi that were forced to close down last week. Thirty others may soon follow...
...more? Hell no. Not until they have gone through the bottom of the grab bag. Then the only comfort they will have is a feeling of togetherness as they queue up in the soup lines. How long will organized labor pursue this madcap race that will end with the dollarless dollar...
...loan. Last week, as one final gesture to make sure the Government couldn't keep his old property, Dollar put in a minimum bid of $14 million. "We are gone," he murmured sadly as he heard A.P.L. Associates' high bid. But Dollar was by no means dollarless. Under the terms of the sale, arranged last spring with Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer (TIME, June 23), Dollar will get half the proceeds, or more than...
...Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
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