1.  They were bartered for Western currency, sold by families desperate for money to buy food.

2.  Another possibility is selling to Russian refiners in rubles and then transferring the cash into western currency, he said.

3.  He also pledged to keep the ruble convertible on Russian and world markets and to crack down on the illegal export of Western currencies.

4.  His prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, earlier attacked western currency speculators, saying they were helping to damage Asian growth.

5.  Mahathir cited Western currency traders like George Soros as the primary culprits.

6.  Ordinarily, the city might borrow Western currency elsewhere.

7.  The Euro will probably be the first Western currency that will not have any graven images of historic figures.

8.  The krona weakened against most western European currencies today.

9.  Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has repeatedly blamed Western currency speculators for triggering the Asian financial crisis and has called for clampdowns on global currency trading.

10.  At the entrance, employees dressed in old military uniforms require party-goers to exchange their western currency for old East German marks to buy drinks.