"Finance minister" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... something truly scandalous in the association of those two words, Pontifical lottery! And what can the hundred and thirty-nine millions of Catholics think, when they hear their spiritual sovereign expressing, through his finance minister, his satisfaction at the progress of vice as proved by the success ...
— The Roman Question • Edmond About
... by the governor has arrived; the order to forward on the van to Pekin, where the treasure is to be handed over to the finance minister. ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne
... privatize state enterprises, and liberalize trade and investment policies lost momentum. Galloping inflation - by June 1994 the monthly rate had risen to nearly 50% - had undermined economic stability. In response, the then finance minister, Fernando Henrique CARDOSO, launched the third phase of his stabilization plan, known as Plano Real, that called for a new currency, the real, which was introduced on 1 July 1994. Inflation subsequently dropped to under 3% per month through the end of 1994. ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... governor has arrived; the order to forward on the van to Pekin, where the treasure is to be handed over to the finance minister. ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne
... he addressed to the regent a Compte rendu, which showed clearly the difficulties he had to meet. His enemies even, like Saint Simon, had to recognize his honesty and his talent. He was certainly, after Colbert, the greatest finance minister of Louis XIV. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various |
