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Ground crews for Sabena, the national flag carrier, ran amok during a 1996 strike day at the airport, smashing the terminal's glass walls and doing millions of francs worth of damage, then demanding more money from the very government that was going to have to pay for the repairs.
Once all European prices are quoted in euros, it will be obvious to consumers when a German company is charging more than its French competitor or vice versa--whereas it wouldn't be if the prices were quoted in francs and marks and had to be converted at the going exchange rate.
6 francs for each dollar of her American income.
In fact, The Fifth Element , at a reported cost of 90 million (dollars, not francs), is the most expensive French-financed film in history.
But, set to those notes, it's a fine example of the transformational properties of music--the perfect opening for Maschwitz's rueful accumulation of sophisticated memory-joggers--"wild strawberries only seven francs a kilo," "the waiters whistling as the last bar closes," and so on.