81.  He cited the success of the Real Plan, an inflation-fighting blueprint designed last spring by Cardoso and based on a new currency, the real.

82.  He and Druckenmiller were hurt by bets on the new European currency, the euro, and Internet stocks.

83.  He said a new currency should be called the Roldos, after a former president and Bucaram mentor.

84.  He pledged that additional pesos would not be created unless Argentina, through trade and investment, accumulated sufficient dollar reserves to back new currency.

85.  He sees few opportunities for traders to exploit weaknesses in the new currency.

86.  He said some turmoil might spill over into equity markets after the final entrants to the new currency system are chosen in May.

87.  He said the new currency will give European corporations a larger market from which to raise capital, thus enhancing the attractiveness of the currency for investors.

88.  He would not say whether he favors the new currency.

89.  His opponents at home accused him of secretly wanting to dissolve the pound sterling into a presumptive new European currency.

90.  How strong the new currency was, they boasted, as it crept up against the dollar.