Word: kroner
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Determined at last to leave him, she announced that she was staying at Haugsetvolden, a farm where they had been visiting. Karl didn't argue--he immediately sold her to the farmer for three hundred kroner, and disappeared for good. Anna stayed at Haugsetvolden the rest of her life, a virtual slave...
...mark, in fact, is no longer an ordinary currency; it has become the de facto leader of a whole block of currencies issued by countries that make up an unofficial "Deutsche Mark zone." Include the Dutch guilder, the Belgian franc, the Luxembourg franc, the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian kroner, the Swiss franc and the Austrian schilling. They tend to rise and fall with the mark, so the mark's strength has pushed the value of the dollar down against all of them...
...trade is with Common Market countries, and outside the EEC Norway will find new tariff barriers for its exports of fish products, paper and metal alloys. In a belated attempt to curb anti-EEC momentum, Socialist Premier Trygve Bratelli, 62, who had risked his reputation and millions of government kroner on pro-EEC propaganda, threatened to resign if the EEC was spurned...
After the vote last week, Bratelli's threat became a reality. The diverse elements that combined to defeat EEC membership now face the difficult task of forming a caretaker government at a time when the country's economic future is uncertain. Norwegian kroner fell on foreign exchange markets, and some prices on the Oslo stock exchange registered their largest drop since World War II. Jubilant anti-Marketers danced in victory, but depressed industrialists predicted that it would take at least a year to negotiate a preferential tariff agreement with...
...francs-the very currencies that creditor countries have been shunning. It thus would have made little sense for the IMF to try to defend the franc by making its loan to Paris largely in dollars or sterling. Instead, it put together a potpourri of currencies ranging from Danish kroner and Irish pounds to South African rands and Mexican pesos...