Word: rials
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...interesting. The state-of-the-art technology employed in creating the nightmare city surpasses that of Star Wars, without the razzle-dazzle light shows and battle scenes. Blade Runner may take the prize for special effects this summer, even with stiff competition from Tron and E.T. Extra-Terrest-rial. In addition, Blade Runner's throw-away humor, such as midget vandals and 21st century Coca-Cola billboard ads, provide a touch of campy humor which does help to compensate for the film's flaws...
...wealthy Iranians trying to get out, carrying with them an estimated $20 million to $50 million in savings a day. Poorer villagers, hurriedly withdrawing money from the suddenly vulnerable banks, have been stuffing their mattresses with currency and buying gold. On the black market the value of the Iranian rial has plunged...
...many offices, a process that takes about three hours. A Tehran resident, complying with the law by paying an additional $1.20 tax assessment not long ago, had to try for nearly a month before he found the appropriate offices and could fill out the proper forms. "A thousand-rial [$13] bribe would have settled it in three minutes," he said bitterly...
...does not lie in the farthest reaches of outer space. Nor is it found in the most remote Amazonian jungle or in the inky blackness of the Mariana Trench. It is located instead in side the human skull, and consists of some 3½ pounds of pinkish-gray mate rial with the consistency of oat meal. It is, of course, the human brain...
...first of the 111 escapees-the 106 guerrillas plus five other prisoners with no link to the Tupamaros-surfaced through the Rial living-room floor at 3 a.m. next day. They quickly changed into new clothes. Small signs directed them to the house next door, where they picked up arms and identification papers. An hour later, trucks whisked them away into the morning darkness. When Rial phoned the police to report the break, they said that "all is quiet" at the prison. When he phoned back, they grudgingly checked the cells and again insisted that all was normal. Not until...