Other pipelines will go west to hard-currency markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Briefing On Caspian Pipeline Diplomacy] Reference

The government has limited hard-currency reserves and high debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cubans Dip a Toe in Capitalist Waters] Reference

They are redeemable for subsidized loans from hard-currency fund countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presto: Another $750 Billion] Reference

The informant wondered if the colonel had a hard-currency account somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

He already is using gold and hard-currency reserves to ensure adequate food rations.    From Wordnik.com.  [First: Smart Bombs. Now: Funny Money.] Reference

With the euro falling fast, Iran couldn't afford to lose its hard-currency reserves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of Iran Euro Sale Hits Currency] Reference

Missiles and other weapons are about the only hard-currency exports in famine-ridden North Korea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analyzing The 'Axis Of Evil'] Reference

It has enough hard-currency reserve from its murky export trade to purchase from the spot market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Axis of Oil] Reference

For them to reduce those sales will cost them billions in hard-currency earnings that they really need. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

North Korea relies on Chinese companies for hard-currency transfers as well as crude oil and food imports.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Anger at North Korea Test Signals Shift] Reference

Chinese banks have an independent dollar supply, as exporters make hard-currency deposits with Chinese banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Vows to Crimp 'Hot Money' Inflows] Reference

It occurred to Ghosn that he had access to hard-currency assets that might boggle the mind of this unbeliever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

Special hard-currency stores, stocked with imported food, clothing and electronics, have sprouted all over the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Worms' Become Butterflies] Reference

Will he ease the minimum 80 percent tax on hard-currency earnings that enterprising Soviets must pay within the U.S.S.R.?.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Cream For The Fat Cats] Reference

Through all that, most white-owned businesses were allowed to continue functioning, if only to provide hard-currency tax revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zimbabwe's Road to Ruin] Reference

Pedia Moyo, president of the Hospitality Association of Zimbabwe which represents the country's hard-currency earning hotels, said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The appreciation of Canada as a hard-currency country has greatly enhanced our ability to compete in the global financial industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Market Is This Anyway?/Global Finance: Are Canadians Up To It?] Reference

With a mere 8 percent of Yugoslavia's population, Slovenia generated more than a quarter of the country's vital hard-currency exports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Improbable Dream] Reference

But the 6,000-ruble tuition, while more than a year's salary for most Soviets, doesn't begin to cover the school's hard-currency expenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Much Hunger?] Reference

In hard-currency times, and with the labor and iron market easy, these terms might have been sufficient to invite the ready aid of capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

They're private armies in a violent struggle between American-owned Dole Food Co. and Italian interests over the country's leading hard-currency earner: bananas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lining Up At The Exit] Reference

"Cubans typically augment state wages with hard-currency obtained remittances.".    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News] Reference

This includes not just Gulf nations, she explained, but countries with hard-currency reserves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Commentaries | Safehaven.com] Reference

Since September, Pakistan has seen its national currency devalued and its hard-currency reserves nearly wiped out.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

The consequent price collapse bankrupted the Soviet Union, which relied on oil for its only hard-currency earnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Amsterdam] Reference

Many foreign companies have been hurt by the devaluation, which reduces the hard-currency value of their profits in bolivars.    From Wordnik.com.  [FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten] Reference

Harare - THE switch to the hard-currency economy has gone faster than most, and probably the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe itself, expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

Rio Zaza made Tropical Island juices and other products that were ubiquitous in hard-currency stores catering to foreigners and tourists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuba summons brother of Chile mogul in fraud case - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

In part, gold is playing its traditional role as the hard-currency alternative to paper currencies, particularly the depreciating dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [latimes.com - News] Reference

The company makes "Tropical Island" brand juices and other food products sold in hard-currency stores catering to foreigners and tourists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE] Reference

Paul, a Duke-trained physician, is an angry, apocalyptic, populist, hard-currency libertarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is There a Doctor in the House?] Reference