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Example sentences for: ruble
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The ruble's slide has, says the NYT , awakened new fears of hyperinflation like that seen in the early 90's.
Both the WP front and a piece inside at the NYT report that Sunday's statement by President Clinton hinting at U.S. support for additional international financial loans to shore up the Russian economy utterly failed to have the anticipated soothing effect: Russian stocks fell another ten percent and the ruble worsened slightly.
' Ruble (Russia), which literally means `stump,' might have denoted a piece cut from a silver bar.
But instead the devaluation convinced everyone that the game was up and that the ruble was about to become more or less worthless, and that was that.
The Post lead quotes an American nuclear security expert saying that the Russian economy is the world's greatest proliferation threat--since the ruble was devalued last summer, the government has slashed the salaries of nuclear plant workers and guards, which means not only fewer people protecting the nukes but also more people prone to the temptations of selling them.
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