1.  Poles were eager to join NATO, even though it will mean spending precious currency to upgrade their military rather than social programs.

2.  The records also describe how the Axis was using its precious foreign currency to finance Nazi spies in the United States itself.

3.  Surrounded by South Africa, the impoverished mountain kingdom currently spends precious foreign currency reserves buying all its power from South Africa.

4.  They argue they helped the economy in the past by earning precious foreign currency from U.S. soldiers and Japanese tourists.

5.  But because of the precious foreign currency the toys earned, the villagers were left largely in peace.