1.   In the week before heading for Paris, the finance officials expressed satisfaction with the recovery of the dollar from the postwar lows it touched last year.

2.   The dollar fell in the next three months to the postwar low.

3.   The dollar has hit a postwar low against the yen this month and a two-year low against the D-mark.

4.   The dollar crashed to a postwar low in trading on Monday morning and recovered modestly only after the central bank swept in to support it.

5.   The dollar crashed to a postwar low in trading on Monday morning and recovered slightly only after the central bank swept in to support it.

6.   The dollar had earlier fallen to a postwar low against the yen and to new two-year lows against the mark and the pound.

7.   Their comments helped send it to its postwar low last year.

8.   Their comments helped send it to its postwar low.

9.   To be sure, the trend of a falling Japanese surplus has helped the dollar from the postwar low, analysts said.

10.   To be sure, not every trader attending the ACI conference said he or she expected the dollar to break its postwar low.