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- Dec. 26, 1994: Died:Antoine Pinay
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Dec. 26, 1994 Man of the Year:Pope John Paul II
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 45
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- <p> DIED. ANTOINE PINAY, 102, French politician who created the
- "new franc" in 1960; at his home in Saint-Chamoud. In 1952 Pinay
- served a nine-month term as both Prime Minister and Finance
- Minister, introducing strict reforms that brought postwar inflation
- under control for the first time. In 1958 he was again named
- Finance Minister; two years later he renewed the attack on inflation
- with the new franc, which he conjured into being by simply knocking
- two zeros off the value of the old one.
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- </body>
- </article>
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