Word: lira
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of any specific pledges by the U.S. to help stabilize exchange rates, and the absence of any willingness in Washington to take any immediate steps to act on the vague promises made, helped push the French franc and the Italian lira to new lows last week against the dollar...
...franc's plight has been aggravated by the persistent strength of the dollar. As high U.S. interest rates draw funds into greenbacks, the dollar last week rose to its highest against the Japanese yen in several years, and set postwar records against the French franc, Italian lira and Canadian dollar. According to a closely watched indicator published by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the dollar's trade-weighted value is now higher than it was in 1970. Fulfilling an agreement reached at Versailles, the Reagan Administration last week broke with its free-market doctrine, selling dollars in foreign...
Giugiaro applies the same basic principles to all types of products. He creates paper, clay or metal prototypes, and is prepared to furnish layouts of the product's assembly line, drawings for the necessary tools and estimates of production costs down to the last lira, mark...
...manifestation of a peculiarly Italian custom, tredicesima. That is a 13th-month salary, paid by law and tradition to workers at all levels every Christmastime. Some 21 million Italians received a total of $9.2 billion tredicesimas last week, and few would be so un-Italian as to save a lira of it. Instead, the windfall will go for pasta, parmigiano and panettone, and for spumante and sambuca to grace their holiday tables. Any lire left over will be spent on gifts and celebratory sprees...
...surprisingly well-conceived story. Bob Fine starts out as a naive and inexperienced English professor, who joins his father's floundering dress-making company. After a disastrous first day on the job, his father (Jack Warden) tells him he needs to "get laid," which he promptly does, by Lira. The only trouble is that Lira is married to Mr. Eddie (Richard Kiel), a mean and monstrous loan shark who takes over Fine Fashions. The predictable mayhem ensues, during which young Fine learns how to "be a man," so that by the end of the film he is suave, confident...