81.   Without Japanese steps to act on its flagging economy by bolstering the banks, the U.S. might drop its efforts to weaken the currency.

82.   Balladur said that Chirac should keep his disputes over policy with the governor of the central bank out of the campaign because they would weaken the currency.

83.   Cutting interest rates can weaken a currency because it reduces demand for it among foreign investors wanting to buy securities of the country in question.

84.   Uncertainties about such important issues generally strengthen the mark and weaken the currencies of other countries that are candidates for taking part in economic and monetary union.

85.   Parliament had just resumed and political instability might again weaken the currency, he said.

86.   Speculation of an interest rate rise had been weakening the currency.

87.   The mark continued to soar against the other European currencies, with the French, Italian, and Spanish currencies particularly weakened by political worries.