Word: wampums
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...Will China respond? Beijing acts in its own best interests; stability at home is what counts. And it doesn't like being lectured by the West: these guys were using paper money in the 9th century, when Washington ran on wampum. Predicting when China will act is like forecasting the breakup of Brad and Angelina-you're pretty sure it will happen, but you don't know when. Many economists expect a small adjustment of around 3-6% before the end of the year. That wouldn't much hurt either Beijing or cheapskates like you. A Chinese DVD player after...
...loyal board and outmaneuvering Mack, who resigned in 2001. Chicago 1, New York 0. Since then, the Morgan side has had a serious case of seller?s remorse. Why? When the stock market turned down, the retail brokerage business hit the skids. The Ivy Leaguers had sold out for wampum...
...nearly 60 years after that, Heye bought just about every Indian artifact he could get his hands on--Kwakiutl doorposts, Mayan jade idols, Lenape wampum belts, Nootka whaleboats, plus every kind of headdress, breastplate and beaded skirt. You can see why he was once described as a man who "felt that he couldn't conscientiously leave a reservation until its entire population was practically naked." By the time he died, in 1957, he had amassed about 800,000 items and opened an overburdened private museum in Manhattan...
...living on your street." I'd consider living in a car, but a parking space in central London just went for ?100,000. Part of the problem is that I get paid in dollars, which, given the current exchange rate, is like getting paid in wampum. Still, my fiancée earns pounds and it doesn't make much of a difference. Something that costs $50 in New York City costs ?50 here - which is basically twice as much these days, but they're hoping you'll forget that. Imagine if Starbucks were allowed to set the prices on everything...
...military-industrial complex, you see, has reared its bloody head with renewed vengeance. But big-hearted professors of The Rights of Man need not despair just yet, if only we can divert some of the war-mongering wampum from bombers, battleships and other things armies generally need to—dum-da-da-dee-DUM!—a beefed-up force of permanent peacekeepers...