Don White wrote:
I wouldn't worry about the yankee dollah yet.
We're sending a crew to Kabul this weekend to do a Christmas show for the
Cdn troops.
Our producer had to take a trunk full of 'merican dollars to pay for excess
baggage on the local airlines etc.


Harry Krause wrote in message
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Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 08:08:21 +0000, Harry Krause wrote:

...seem to be becoming the "lingua franca" of currency for purchases in
Europe?

Well, DUH!

It's the currency of Europe: why are you surprised it's what they deal
in? Do US
firms deal in Yen when dealing with Japan?

Lloyd

Ack, of course. But maybe I wasn't clear enough. Previously, I'd run
across vendors who quoted DM AND dollars or frances AND dollars, et
cetera. Now I am seeing mostly quotes in Euros.





Ahhh...baksheesh. Well, I'm glad our currency is good for something.


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