Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's department will also award one of the top five finishers a fellowship to pay for a full year's tuition at Harvard, most often for graduate school...
Most economic experts say the crisis began in 1982 when Mexico announced that it could not pay the interest on its external and private debt. The problem had its roots in a combination of factors, including banks rashly loaning money to Third World nations, the countries using the money for unneeded and bloated projects--usually called "white elephants"--the quick reduction of capital flowing to these nations, and most of all a crash in the prices of products the countries export. For example, the 1985 crash in tin prices helped crush Bolivia's economy, and the fall in petroleum prices...
...problems escalate when nations print more money in order to pay back their debts, causing hyper-inflation. In Bolivia inflation grew to 24,000 percent. The government had to give its employees raises at a rate approaching that of inflation. They only took in taxes at properties assessed at the previous year's rate. For this reason, countries found themselves in even worse financial straits, with rapidly burgeoning deficits...
...then pay attention to the Sports Cube's annual baseball trivia quiz...
...suffer from Post-Sesame Depression (PSD), which has altered our power to imagine and create, causing us to believe in the mediocre and pay attention to television shows such as Entertainment Tonight? Has the first Sesame Street generation turned into a bunch of unimaginative college students worried about what Geraldo or Oprah or Phil has to say every...