Word: pounds
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...currency traders who knocked the British pound and Italian lira out of the E.C.'s monetary system two weeks ago displayed their own doubts about the future by selling off French francs in favor of German marks. French President Francois Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, after conferring in Paris, vowed to work together, and their central banks jointly supported the franc...
...Britain an impassioned parliamentary debate last week revealed the public's deep unease about the agreement in the wake of a devaluation of the pound that has shaken the government's economic policies. "Maastricht does not create a superstate," said Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. "But the feeling among Europe's people -- the real people -- is that it does...
...Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg '49, aformer dean of the Law School, said Marshall is"one of the most respected lawyers in the city...
...extent to which fear and loathing still hold Europe in their grip is also demonstrated by the current crisis in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). This crisis, which in the past two weeks has seen the British pound and Italian lira suspended from the ERM, the Spanish peseta significantly devalued, and the French franc under serious attack, has brought out of the closet all of the chauvinist habits of the pre-war years...
...highest officials of the British government have accused Germany of a "whispering campaign" and conspiracy to push the pound sterling out of ERM. They have also charged that this campaign is part of a "secret pact" between the French and German governments to go ahead with Maastricht over the objections of their European partners, not to mention substantial sections of their own populations...