Word: hinting
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...insists local companies hew to greater accounting transparency. In Japan, corporations don't have to air all their dirty financial laundry to shareholders, as they do in the U.S.; a money-losing division can be hidden away as a "subsidiary" and assets can be listed at inflated values. A hint of change in that direction could spark a stock-market rally as it did in 1999, when corporations finally began to restructure?the Nikkei soared 36.8% and smaller stocks doubled...
...recommended prices for porters and transport, the usual warnings against pushy vendors selling fakes. News on bandits in the area catches our attention: it seems a little paranoid in law-abiding Japan. But it's the sizeable reward for turning Christians in to authorities that offers the most obvious hint that it has been a while since this bulletin was updated...
...even better spot to spend a day, or even a few hours, is about 20 miles down the coast. Tiny, brightly colored Portofino has long been one of Italy's most chic resorts. Gossip about the recent mysterious death of a wealthy countess is the only hint of crime you're likely to find in this town of extraordinary Mediterranean views...
...Sierra Leone's army recruits tested positive, he is dismissive. "Twenty-five persons is not many," he says, sitting outside his house in the RUF stronghold of Makeni. Not persons, percent. One in four. "You mean one in four in the SLA?" he asks, with surprise and a hint of fear. "Ahhh. Even peace brings complications. The United Nations peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone is the biggest in the world. By the end of the year 17,500 troops from 31 armies, including large contingents from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan, will be stationed there. "Soldiers all over the world interact...
Americans go to great lengths for safety: We install elaborate security systems in our homes, anti-theft mechanisms on our cars and remind even our smallest children to "Stop, drop and roll" at the merest hint of fire...