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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fighting inflation is a relatively new challenge for the Bank of Japan. For most of the 1980s, inflation was a faint, distant threat. Low oil prices kept increases at bay, even while property values soared. The rampant speculation in land prices, in fact, which made slivers of land in downtown Tokyo worth a fortune, was a powerful engine for the stock market. Investors could use their real estate holdings as collateral for buying stocks on margin. Then they could turn around and use their stocks as collateral to buy more real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop! Goes the Bubble | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...Cruzan case may finally provide the lower courts with some clear guidance in striking a fundamental balance between the rights of individuals and the duties of the state. If they chose, the Cruzans' lawyers could have suggested that Nancy's "life" is so faint that it does not meet a minimum standard of protection under the law; that, unaware as she is, she has none of those qualities and prospects and experiences that give life its value. But such an argument would require setting some line above which lives are protected, below which they are not. "In the public realm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Love and Let Die | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...slowing economy worries Wall Street because corporate profits, which are already growing faint, would evaporate during a recession. Of 795 firms surveyed by Zacks Investment Research that have released fourth-quarter results, 51% had worse-than-expected earnings. Another factor depressing Wall Street is the pervasive feeling that the 1980s gold rush of takeovers and leveraged buyouts has finally subsided, largely because the junk-bond market is moribund and banks have grown leery of financing major new deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bear Scare | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...poet named Benjamin Franklin Taylor caught both the metaphysics and, unintentionally, the comedy when he wrote this rhapsody to the phone: "The far is near. Our feeblest whispers fly/ Where cannon falter, thunders faint and die./ Your little song the telephone can float/ As free of fetters as a bluebird's note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hoy! Hoy! Mushi-Mushi! Allo! | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...However faint the sunrise was, I appreciated it. I have not seen too many sunrises in my life--certainly not many sober, or after just waking. And I had never watched one while taking an exam at five in the morning...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Creatures From the Land Down Under | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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