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...Japan first tried intervening in foreign-exchange markets, spending $10 billion, or 17% of the country's currency reserves, to buy yen and dump dollars. Since that proved futile, the central bank last week boosted the key discount rate by a full percentage point, to 5.25%. That is modest enough by U.S. standards, but a huge increase from last May's 2.5% rate...
...Then he pointed to the far side of Houston's Hollywood Cemetery, where a sea of tombstones gives way to a grassy hillside. A dainty marble cherub, its head severed at the neck by vandals, guards the spot. Surrounding the lifeless angel are scores of infants' graves, most with modest plaques, one raising a silent protest: SO SMALL, SO SWEET, SO SOON...
Feminist jurisprudence concerning reproduction must often be argued in the language of the status quo, even though the new debate requires its own vocabulary, Marcus said, adding that she believed the current legal system would only offer "modest adaptation...
...Miramax began to attract attention with its clever marketing of The Thin Blue Line, a stylish documentary about a wrongful murder conviction in Dallas, and for distributing the Swedish epic Pelle the Conqueror. While profits were modest, Pelle went on to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, while The Thin Blue Line became a news sensation: it helped persuade a Texas court to throw out the murder conviction...
...student to take some initiative. But it is claer that the most modest efforts by students are amply rewarded," Light concludes...