Word: franc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Georges Pompidou, to attend the opening of the Vasarely Foundation in Gordes, a combination research center and public museum containing 1,500 ; of Vasarely's works. To house the foundation, the city rented " to the painter the massive 16th century Chateau de Gordes for a symbolic one franc a year...
...than in Canada (4.7%) or in most other industrial countries. The U.S. dollar is the standard of value against which all other currencies are measured. But its purchasing power is shrinking faster than that of other important moneys, which is a major reason why the Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and the Dutch guilder have lately looked "undervalued...
Nearly two years of sporadic strikes, riots, sinking trade balances, a franc devaluation and other troubles led French Economist Jean-Marie Albertini to invent a Monopoly-like game called Ec-oplany. In it, players assume the role of finance ministers and try to outwit each other at running a national economy. By rolling dice, each participant is tossed from recessions to failing harvests to baby booms. Unless he learns quickly, a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge of civil war in no time...