Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rupiah and exchange rupiah for U.S. dollars. "By pegging the rupiah," explains Baumohl, "Indonesia has promised to buy those rupiah with U.S. dollars--at the inflated price." Indonesia's reserves of foreign currency, vital to a nation's economic health, will quickly shrink. And traders, smelling more trouble, will dump even more rupiah, guaranteeing an economic meltdown. "In no time," says Baumohl, "the Indonesian government is bankrupt, and the economy collapses...
...drugs like Depakote produce side effects like nausea. And manic depressives, remembering the high of hypomania, are prone to dump their medicine. Within days after her January release, her friends reported, LeTourneau stopped taking Depakote and planned to see a "naturopath" instead. She quarreled with the doctors in her treatment program. Within weeks, she was in her car with her illicit young lover, kissing and talking, fully clothed, until they were discovered by police...
NUTTY THE FRIENDLY DUMP OCCUPATION: Imaginary friend of Jimmy the Idiot Boy BEST PUNCH: John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, claimed Mr. Hankey, who appeared on Comedy Central's South Park, is similar to his Web-based character...
...building] was a dump, but it was a grand dump," says Julian E. Barnes '93, Crimson president...
...city's crimes go unpunished, probably because police are committing so many of them. Just days after he took office last month promising to clean up the constabulary, Mexico City's first-ever elected mayor, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano of the left-center Democratic Revolution Party, had to dump his newly appointed investigative police chief because of his alleged ties to drug trafficking and torture. Police are suspected of heading a kidnapping boom that has grown into a billion-dollar ransom industry. Americans are by no means exempt. On Dec. 15, Peter John Zarate, 40, a real estate executive and father...