Word: franc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much had France paid for its citizens' freedom, both to Iran, which brokered the release, and to Islamic Jihad? Interior Minister Charles Pasqua insisted that "not a franc, not a dollar, not a deutsche mark" was rendered. But another French official said the Iranians were interested in re- establishing diplomatic relations, which were broken last summer. They also wanted repayment of a $1 billion loan made to France in 1974, which they argue has appreciated considerably because of accrued interest. France has so far paid back $660 million...
...baroque Madonna Inn. A movie producer philanders in a room decorated in Late Neanderthal, while his wife dallies in Heidi's Hideaway, and an Elvis impersonator lip-syncs La donna e mobile. In another Western hotel, Tristan and Isolde execute a quickie marriage and a slow double suicide. Director Franc Roddam knows that Las Vegas and Liebestod were made for each other...
...accuses his wife Charlotte of infidelity, disputing her claim that she has just returned from a Geneva art auction. Due to Stoppard's cunning, his ambiguous lines refer to either her new lover or her trip. "How's old Geneva then? Frank doing well?" "What?" Charlotte asks. "The Swiss Franc. Is it doing well?" They refuse to address the crisis at hand. Instead, Max digresses on apparently far-out topics which actually parallel the scene's conflict, a technique Stoppard uses and overuses later...
...London in 1895, he came as a millionaire and bought a mansion off Park Lane. Jimmy's father Frank, who changed his name to Goldsmith, went to Oxford, fought at Gallipoli, sat in Parliament, but found London's wartime anti-German emotions so painful that he moved to France, married a French wife and prospered in the hotel business. He lived in a world of yachts and limousines and casinos, and so did the son born in 1933, Jimmy. When he was six years old, according to a new biography by Geoffrey Wansell, Tycoon, a woman gave...
Blocking the path to robust European growth is the low value of the dollar. Despite recent gains, the U.S. currency is still down more than 40% against the West German mark and the French franc since early 1985. That decline has damaged many of Europe's export-driven economies by making their products more expensive in relation to American-made goods...