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...Japan and South Korea that gave the world a jolt. No sooner had rumors of a possible South Korean collapse swept out of Seoul than the Japanese yen and the Tokyo stock market plunged to their lowest levels in two years. Across the Pacific, the ill winds from Asia blew the Dow Jones industrial average into a 157-point drop on Wednesday. "The real problem in East Asia is not Thailand, Indonesia or the Philippines," says Kenneth Courtis, chief Asia-Pacific strategist for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. "It is Japan and Korea...
...culinary store, thought its average customer was 42. But then it noticed more and more young people buying big-ticket items like turkey roasting pans instead of the expected disposable aluminum pans. The company introduced cookbooks on CD-ROM, anticipating moderate sales to middle-aged gourmands, but the discs blew out of the stores, toted by twentysomethings. Says the company's Maggipinto: "Now 26 is our emerging market, and as of this year we have begun seriously focusing on being on trend," she says. "On trend" has meant offering its best-selling stainless-steel toaster in Gen X-friendly pastels...
...mourns Duritz. "I lived in Watertown [Massachusetts] when I was a little kid, and I wanted to go to Harvard really well in high school, and went off to Connecticut to go to boarding school specifically for the purpose of going on to Harvard." Duritz says, however, that he blew his chances while in boarding school. "I ended up at Berkeley," he continues, "which was fine too, because later on I wanted to be at Berkeley. But at the time, when I was a kid, that [going to Harvard] was like what I dreamed about...
...Japan's markets, meanwhile, blew hot and cold in Thursday's trading. The Nikkei 225 index bumped up 85.82 points, or 0.5 percent, recovering after Wednesday's 52.05-point drop. But losers outnumbered winners 4 to 1, and other major market indexes closed lower...
...pretty much blew it," said Keeton, "We had two breakdowns and they burned...