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Twelve Countries Begin Using A Currency Nobody Has To LearnJANUARY 1, 2002 · 10:09
Notes and coins in twelve currencies were issued to 300 million people on the first of the month. Accounts are still being opened in old currencies in three countries. The conversion rate was fixed years ago and will not be adjusted for as long as the exchange rate holds, which is a sentence with conditions in it.
THE NOTES. THE BRIDGE IS IN ROUEN AND WE HAVE CHECKED.
( FILE PHOTO )
THE NOTES. THE BRIDGE IS IN ROUEN AND WE HAVE CHECKED.
FRANKFURT, January 1 -- The euro entered circulation in twelve countries this morning, replacing national currencies with a note that shows a window and a bridge, neither of which is in the country that issued it.
The European Central Bank has assured citizens that the changeover will be 'an entirely ordinary experience,' a phrase which has been repeated approximately eleven thousand times since January 1999 and which everybody still finds slightly sinister.
Corrections: none so far. Published items are never corrected, they are replaced,
and the replacement keeps the original in the archive, where nobody will look for it.
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BuffaloWildWingsFan87
Joined: May 2002 · Posts: 1544
· Buffalo, NY · 2 minutes later
we have had this computer since 1998 and it still works. you people will not buy this because of the new thing. i do not care. i am right.
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DisappointedByEveryone
Joined: Apr 2004 · Posts: 76
· wet · an hour later
buy the stock. i am not a financial adviser. i am a man with a modem.
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HelenFromAccounting
Joined: Sep 2000 · Posts: 1905
· Bridgeport, CT · same afternoon
HelenFromAccounting wrote:
Twelve Countries Begin Using A Currency Nobody Has To Learn honestly? the numbers were fine. i looked at the numbers. the numbers were FINE. somebody explain the numbers to me again.
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RageQuitRita
Joined: Oct 2004 · Posts: 22
· Denver, CO · that evening
is it just me or did nobody else get an update when they said they were releasing one? mine says 1999 on it.
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ThisIsNotSarcasm
Joined: Nov 2001 · Posts: 611
· Nashville, TN · the next morning
ThisIsNotSarcasm wrote:
honestly? the numbers were fine. i looked at the numbers. the numbers were FINE. somebody explain the numbers ... my 401k has a word for what this is called and the word is 'no'
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xX_XBOX_Xx
Joined: Jan 2003 · Posts: 1320
· redmond · the following day
the stock did exactly what the company said it would do, which is the definition of a stock
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