11.   Many analysts think the dollar is on an uptrend.

12.   The dollar is worth more in Mexico.

13.   The dollar is the principal unit of American currency.

14.   Foreign exchange worked to our advantage this year, the dollar was at one seventy two on average.

15.   The dollar was the lynchpin of the Bretton Woods system.

16.   Limiting the size of US deficits by forcing revaluations or making official statements that the dollar is too high is quite consistent with the dollar maintaining an international role.

17.   These dollars can then be placed on deposit and earn interest.

18.   Also, a stronger dollar is good news for Japanese exporters, boosting overseas profits when brought back to Japan.

19.   Also available are flights to Canada, where the American dollar is buying more these days.

20.   Although the dollar has not been a big concern for policy-makers in the past, a weak dollar would complicate their job of turning the economy around.