Word: franc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss. In Tokyo the U.S. dollar, which has lost about 30% of its value against the yen in the past 18 months, tumbled quickly from 145 to the dollar to 142.5 before rebounding to finish the week at 143.6. In Paris, the dollar dropped nearly 2% against the French franc in a matter of hours, but later gained back half of its lost value...
...franc a minute (roughly $9 an hour), electronic chats like these add up. In the first six months of 1986, Minitel users made 122 million calls, logged 13 million hours and poured $53.7 million into the hands of some 3,000 services, including newspapers, travel agencies and retail shops. One information purveyor, the daily tabloid Le Parisien Libere, fields 50,000 calls a day for its mix of news, features and message centers -- taking in $1 million a month, half of which is profit...
...enough for police to distribute nationwide some 80,000 wanted posters with photographs of Nathalie Menigon, 29, and Joelle Aubron, 27, two Action Directe militants. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua urged the nation to "cooperate with the police" in hunting down Besse's murderers, and he offered a 1 million franc ($152,000) reward for information leading to their capture...
...plan, designed to avoid wild fluctuations on currency markets, would affect the U.S. dollar, the yen, the West German mark, French franc and the British pound...
Less than a month after its narrow victory in national elections, France's new center-rightist coalition led by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac began last week to reshape the country's economy. First it managed to wring out of the European Community an agreement to devalue the franc by the equivalent of 6% against the West German mark. Then the new Prime Minister announced that he would denationalize up to 57 banks and companies, many of which had been nationalized before the Socialists came to power five years...