Sticking with the dollar can be so painful these days that some companies are looking for an escape. That appears to be the case with billionaire Ronald Lauder's central European media enterprises (78, CETV).rnCME, as the firm is known, operates television stations in eastern Europe. Its Ukrainian operations, which brought in 15% of 2007 revenues, are barely growing, even as operating costs there have skyrocketed. Last year cme lost $250,000 in the first quarter.rnTo engineer a made-for-TV ending for the first three months of this year, the Bermuda company has started reporting results for its Romanian operations, which represented one-quarter of 2007 revenues, in the local leu rather than in dollars.
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