Word: carnet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restrictions would take citizens' minds off the other austerity measures. Yet the foreign travel controversy aroused only anger. Said a bank employee in Paris: "The government is making us pay for its mistakes." Frenchmen were particularly goaded by the fact that they will have to carry a carnet de change, a kind of financial passport complete with a photograph of the bearer, as they pass across the national frontier. Said the usually pro-Socialist newspaper Le Monde: "France is copying the East bloc countries. On the pretext of saving foreign currency, it is setting up a gigantic control system...