Word: lire
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...book a day. In order to plow through more pages, he commutes to work by public transportation and when on vacation often asks his wife to drive. Besides being host of Apostrophes, he is founder and editor of France's largest (circ. 175,000) literary magazine, the monthly Lire. In addition, he has managed to write books about two of his sustaining passions, Beaujolais and soccer, and to serve as deputy mayor of the town of Quincie-en- Beaujolais in southern France...
...Corporation in recent months has considered everything from the impact of the new tax plan on longterm giving to the budgetary needs of Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Italy, which has been buffetted by an inflated lire...
...nearly half an hour, five customs officials carefully inspected her four suitcases. They counted her foreign currency--lire and dollars--and raised their eyebrows at the four jars of caviar she had with her, before a guard finally checked her travel documents. Then, for the first time in six years, Yelena Bonner, 62, wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov, was finally free to leave the Soviet Union...
...television cameras whirred and photographers snapped away last week, a clerk at the Paris currency exchange wrote the historic numbers on the chalkboard next to the words United States: 10.0230. In Milan, another clerk scribbled in the new price for the dollar: 2003.40 lire. The U.S. dollar, which only five years ago was the world's weakest major currency, had just passed two important milestones: 10 francs and 2,000 lire to the dollar. In New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and almost everywhere else that currencies are traded, investors and speculators were betting on the dollar with an enthusiasm that...
...smashed records for three straight days. The U.S. currency reached alltime highs against the French franc, the Italian lira and the British pound, and a ten-year peak in relation to the West German mark. By the end of the week, a dollar was worth 8.59 francs, 1,700.25 lire and 2.8 marks. The pound cost only $1.40. The dollar's gains continued even though the U.S. Federal Reserve was selling greenbacks to brake the currency's rise...