Word: koo
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This aardvark thing is a breath of fresh air. Meanwhile, Sebastian seems to be stepping up to meet the competition. Keep that whip crackin.' Gene Koo...
Consul-General Ahn Jong-Koo of Boston's South Korean Consulate and Edward Baker, the associate director of the Harvard Yenching Institute, said they both hoped that the election of Kim Young Sam, South Korea's first democratically elected civilian president in 42 years, would usher in a period of reform...
Another argument for change is that investors are no longer willing to wait for long-term payouts on their investments. "Those days are over," argued Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute, in an article in the economic weekly magazine Toyo Keizai. From now on, he predicted, companies will have to increase prices or withdraw from unprofitable lines of business if they are to meet investors' expectations...
Such protests came to a head last week, when 60,000 farmers wearing broad- brimmed bush hats converged on Melbourne to dramatize their hardships. Coming from specks on the map like Yackandandah and Koo-wee-rup, they marched along leading sheepdogs or, in two cases, mounted on camels. AUSTRALIA FOR SHEEP, NOT POLITICAL GOATS proclaimed one placard. Rally leader Danny Johnson from Warracknabeal drew cheers when he shouted, "The heart has been ripped out of country Australia by high interest rates and excessive government taxes...
...trouble, raising the threat of inflation and putting upward pressure on interest rates. The yen has sagged largely because of the quickening outflow of Japan's immense cash hoard to other countries, where Japanese investors have found investments more lucrative or stable than at home. Says Nomura's Koo: "We got into this mess because Japanese investors were always moving money abroad." Example: Ito- Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, agreed last week to pay $400 million for a 75% stake in Southland Corp., the Dallas-based operator of the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores. At the same time, Japanese...