| November 29, 2006 | - A federal judge ruled that American paper currency discriminates against blind people.
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CNN
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| February 9, 2004 | - The dollar continued to fall.
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Reuters
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| December 4, 2003 | - There was a movement afoot to put Ronald Reagan's face on the dime.
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Associated Press
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| December 10, 2002 | -
President Bush decided to restore a patronage system created by his father and eliminated by Bill Clinton that permits federal agencies to give political appointees large cash bonuses.
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| December 11, 2001 | - In Missouri, a pharmacist admitted to diluting cancer
drugs; he did it because he needed to raise money to pay $1,000,000 in taxes and a pledge to his church.
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| October 23, 2001 | - In response to reports of heavy civilian casualties near Darunta, the Pentagon spent millions of dollars buying up exclusive rights to civilian satellite photos of the Afghan bombing zone to prevent the images from falling into the hands of the news media.
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| October 9, 2001 | - The director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was created by the 1997 treaty that bans such weapons, complained that he didn't have enough money in his budget to make even basic preparations to respond to chemical attacks by terrorists.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
American Airlines, which will receive about $808 million in bailout money from the federal government, announced that it will invoke an emergency clause in its contracts to avoid paying severance to the 200,000 workers it plans to lay off.
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| September 18, 2001 | - Strikes against Iraq were being planned to punish Saddam Hussein for smuggling millions of dollars to Osama bin Laden.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Bush Administration officials contradicted previous statements that they would let China build up its nuclear arsenal if Beijing would simply drop its objections to the missile-defense boondoggle. Russia was beginning to approach the subject with a certain irony. “If they have the money to build the most excessive response to the least probable threat situation, that's okay,” said Vladimir Lukin, deputy speaker of parliament.
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| September 4, 2001 | - In Lumberton, Mississippi, a man was planning to amputate his useless feet with a guillotine live on the Internet; he hopes to raise money for prosthetic legs.
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| September 4, 2001 | - Democratic fat cats and fund-raisers were turning up their noses at Al Gore's recent attempts to “reach out” and beg for cash; many said they were focusing on winning the next presidential election with a viable candidate.
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| August 28, 2001 | -
Scientists found that people who eat a lot of snacks are more prone to macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. The FBI uncovered a six-year scam in which eight people rigged McDonald's contests, embezzling $13 million in cash and prizes.
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| August 14, 2001 | - A new report found that a $40 million government computer program designed to track Indian trust-fund money doesn't work and never will; Indians have claimed in a class-action lawsuit that the Great White Father has squandered at least $10 billion of their royalties from grazing, logging, and mining.
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| July 31, 2001 | - One of the world's largest paintings, by French fauvist Raoul Dufy, was found to be coated in cancer-causing asbestos; the Paris Museum of Modern Art will spend a million dollars scraping it off.
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| July 31, 2001 | - The study helpfully pointed out that the country saves hundreds of millions of dollars in housing, health care, and pensions for former smokers who no longer require such services, because they're dead.
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| July 17, 2001 | - 401-K retirement plans were losing money for the first time.
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| July 3, 2001 | - Vladimiro Montesinos, formerly Peru's answer to Rasputin, was arrested in Venezuela, having become a liability to Hugo Chávez, and was sent home in shackles to face a life sentence for arms trafficking, money laundering, death-squad activities, torture, arms kickbacks, and bribery.
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| April 24, 2001 | -
Singapore was paying cash to couples who have second and third children as part of its “Baby Bonus Scheme” to reverse its falling birthrate; a local newspaper printed instructions for having sex in the back seat of a car.
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| April 3, 2001 | - A new study has found that small men are less likely to get married than larger men; they also make less money.
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| April 3, 2001 | - The Senate passed a campaign-finance reform bill that banned soft money.
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| March 27, 2001 | -
Moscow warned the United States about its new Cold War rhetoric; the Russians were upset over remarks by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said that “Russia is an active proliferator” of dangerous weapons
technology which “seems to be willing to sell anything to anyone for money.” The United States expelled 50 Russian diplomats, four of whom were thought to have been working with Robert Philip Hanssen, the FBI agent recently arrested for spying; Russia in turn said it would expel the 50 diplomats most precious to America.
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| March 27, 2001 | - The Taliban explained that they destroyed Afghanistan's ancient Buddhist statues because a group of Europeans had recently visited and offered money to preserve the statues, but none to feed starving Afghani children.
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| March 13, 2001 | - Forty-one young children in China who were busy making firecrackers to raise money for their school were blown to bits when their gunpowder exploded and destroyed their school.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Pat Robertson was worried that cults such as the Moonies, Scientologists, and Hare Krishnas might obtain government funding under President Bush's plan to give money to religious organizations.
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| January 2, 2001 | -
Russian women were not getting married and having children because too many Russian men were not earning enough money; the
New York Times considered this to be yet another example of “freedom's toll.” A woman succeeded in introducing DNA evidence of infidelity into a divorce proceeding, a first.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Republicans were upset about Senator-elect Hillary Clinton's $8 million book deal; concerns were expressed about the potential conflict of interest created by accepting money from a major media company with an aggressive legislative agenda.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Members of a Coney Island gang called the Cream Team (which stands for Cash Rules Everything Around Me) were arrested on charges of kidnapping, assault, robbery, drugs, and attempted murder.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
Clinton administration officials denied that contributors to Hillary Clinton's
Senate
campaign were given special invitations to sleep over at the White House; the Clinton campaign said that only about 1/4 of recent guests had given money.
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| September 26, 2000 | - The New York City Board of Education unveiled a plan to distribute 750,000 laptops to every child in the system above grade 3; the plan, which would cost $900 million dollars, would be underwritten by technology companies wishing to expand their markets and by selling advertising on a special Web portal for students.
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| September 19, 2000 | - An education advocacy group warned that spending money on computers and Internet connections for schools is a big waste of money with no demonstrable educational benefit.
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