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The United Kingdom, which had a central bank and at the same time pegged its currency, experienced a major foreign exchange crisis in late 1967, when the pound was pegged to the U.S. dollar, and again, this time along with France, Italy and other members of the European Monetary Union in 1992 and 1993, when the peg was not to the dollar but at rates agreed to under the European Monetary System.

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This substitute cost nine dollars a pound, whereas real heparin, the real ingredient, cost 900 dollars a pound.

We're going to keep hollowing them out, because you, inch for inch and pound for pound and dollar for dollar, none of you could squeeze revenue out of that space like the Boston Shuffler could.

So this weighs a little more than a tenth of a pound.

Today, we can produce virgin metal from ore at a cost of less than 50 cents a pound.

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