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...kind of appreciation the yen is experiencing now isn't necessarily a bad thing, says Takashi Omori, chief economist for Japan at UBS. He points to the fact that about 80% of Japanese imports are contracted on foreign currency and this would allow for savings on import costs with an appreciating yen and make up for some losses expected in export sales. He says that some Japanese firms have accumulated profits in the past years and can now be expected to live off of this while the yen stabilizes. If you take into account exchange rate and inflation, the current...
...perennial” one. “For some it’s political, for some it’s social, and for some it’s both. That balance changes all the time.”Despite the rise of gay marriage as an issue of national import, political activism hasn’t been high on the BGLTSA agenda in the past few years. It was for this reason that Brooks and several other politically-minded—and disgruntled—members of the community decided to form The Coalition last year. While The Coalition struggles...
...with her late husband. And Italy is by no means the only nation making demands. Egypt wants the bust of Nefertiti from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Peru says Yale must return artifacts from the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. And China has asked the U.S. to ban the import of almost anything of aesthetic interest--scrolls, paintings, furniture--made from the prehistoric era to the end of the Qing dynasty...
...meet with the architect of the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero, and a presentation by the Allston Development Group.The themes and accompanying activities vary year to year and continent to continent: at the 2007 Hong Kong University conference, Bruemmer remembers her delegation’s tour of an import-export company. “It was really incredible, because you never think about where all this stuff...is coming from,” Bruemmer recalls. “We just went through this warehouse, and there were just stacks and stacks of stuff being ready to be shipped all over...
...These exercises [of international import] all had one thing in common,” Tosteson says. “They were under-funded...