Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the fall of the dollar on the world market has made travel in Japan prohibitively expensive, both students will work as interns for the majority of their time abroad...
...Since rents have been escalating, some places going for $60 per square foot... only high-profit-margin, national chain stores or those that appeal to faddish markets survive, since they are able to pay top dollar," Gifford said." The Ma and Pa stores are being forced out, and that's a shame...
...throttled down by severe inflation that led to long periods of high interest rates. In recent years, however, a combination of oil-price declines, corporate cost cutting and foreign competition has kept inflation at an unusually low level -- an average of 3.1% from 1985 through 1987. The low-value dollar could lead to a new burst of inflation by driving up import prices, but so far the impact has been minimal...
...office, Jackson says, "I've dealt with more world leaders than any of the candidates, and I met them when they were living ((a dig at Bush's errands to funerals of foreign dignitaries)). Take all the Democratic candidates, blindfold us, drop us anywhere in the world with a dollar in our pockets, and who do you think would lead the others...
Whittle refuses to divulge which advertisers have come on board so far, but giants Procter & Gamble and Warner-Lambert are said to be considering committing multimillion-dollar budgets to the new magazines. Spokesmen for the two companies deny that any contracts have been signed with Whittle, who predicts that he will sell $37 million worth of advertising in the first year...