The lempira ( currency ) was devaluing for many years but stabilized at L19 to the US dollar in 2005.

The official exchange rate of the lempira, pegged at US $ 1 = L2 since 1918, was dramatically devalued in 1990.

The value of the lempira was adjusted to US $ 1 = L4, with the exception of the rate for debt equity conversions, which remained at the old rate of US $ 1 = L2.

The lempira was introduced in 1931, replacing the peso at par.

As of July 18th, 2011, the lempira was quoted at 18. 875 HNL to 1 USD.

The lempira (, sing: L, ISO 4217 code: HNL ) is the currency of Honduras.

He is a national hero, and is honoured on both the 1 lempira note and the 20 and 50 centavos coins.

* The Civil Aviation Authority of Honduras temporarily suspended the license to operate of Islena Airlines part of the Taca El Salvador group, for outstanding debts of 37 million Honduran lempira, leaving the service of internal flights to Honduras in crisis.

* Honduran lempira

* Honduran lempira, ISO 4217 currency code for the currency of Honduras

While his followers and a large proportion of the population would favour him due to the perceived honesty and integrity of his government, another group would challenge this view, arguing that he pursued a weak economic policy ( artificially maintaining a 2: 1 exchange rate between the Honduran lempira and the US dollar ), ran up large budget deficits and did little to develop investment opportunities in the country.

Higher costs for imported fertilizers because of the devaluation of the lempira add to the problem.

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Side effects of the cash infusion were that the national currency, the lempira became overvalued and the amount of exports dropped.

Hondurans had been accustomed to low inflation ( 3. 4 percent in 1985, rising to 4. 5 percent by the end of 1986 ), partly because pegging the lempira to the dollar linked Honduras's inflation rate to inflation rates in developed countries.

The official conversion rate of the lempira fell to US $ 1 = L7. 26 in December 1993.

A major devaluation of the lempira added to the already high cost of construction imports.

In 1931, coins were introduced in denominations of 5, 20 & 50 centavos & 1 lempira.

The silver 1 lempira coins ceased production in 1937, with the other silver coins ( 20 & 50 centavos ) replaced by cupro-nickel in 1967.

The Bank of Honduras and the Banco Atlantida issued the first lempira banknotes in 1932.

The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Others carried extra clips for the Browning Automatic Rifle, which was in the hands of a little Mexican named Martinez.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

She was awarded the Professional Handlers' Ass'ns' Leonard Brumby, Sr. Memorial Trophy ( named for the founder-originator of the Junior Classes.

The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.

The omelet named for Ernest Arbogast, the Palace's chef, was even more in demand.

Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.

There was a fellow named Blatz over Smithtown way.

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

Asked who this was, she named Harrington.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

The big, paunchy man named Geely was on that side, half-turned in the seat toward his hatchet-faced companion so that his back partially rested against the closed door.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.