Word: dollars
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...deal with it on this scale before: thanks primarily to its thriving export industries, China has $1.4 trillion (and counting) in its pocket, and has to put it somewhere. For years, the investment of choice has been the drab solidity of U.S. Treasury bonds. But as the dollar drops, and higher returns can be gained elsewhere, China has begun to eye more alluring places to stash some of its cash...
...televangelist Jim Bakker and the co-host of the Jim and Tammy Show. Yet by the '90s, as her husband was disgraced by his marital infidelities and served a prison sentence for defrauding followers, Tammy Faye Messner began to look more spiritual. She stuck with Bakker as their multimillion-dollar PTL (Praise the Lord) empire crumbled, finally divorcing him in 1992. She promoted her faith, made fun of herself on Roseanne and other sitcoms and supported gay rights. ("We're all just people made of the same old dirt," she said.) After learning she had colon cancer...
...number of cars on the road while increasing the average speed of vehicles that remain. Meanwhile, the funds collected from the tax will be used to bolster public transportation, offering more eco- and traffic-friendly alternatives. While critics charge that the tax is regressive, since the proposed eight dollar fee will present more of a burden to poor motorists, they fail to note that a majority of automotive commuters earn above-average incomes, and that the tax means increased funding for buses and subways that are used disproportionately by less affluent residents...
...land ruled by the dollar bill, it's perfectly fine to advertise to customers and attempt to take them for all they're worth. Everyone knows that marketing - the ads, commercials, T-shirts and arthritis talks in the backs of diners - is designed to get money from customers. The conventional lie is that marketing informs. Maybe it does, peripherally. It's really done to persuade. But is it fine to persuade patients, so you can squeeze more money from them? Is it fine to scare patients into tests and iffy treatments, to persuade people who aren't sick...
Value of the euro against the U.S. dollar on July 13, an all-time high...