Word: moneymen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...posted a current-account surplus of $69 billion last year, but that is down from $87 billion two years earlier. (One reason is the surge in Japanese travel, which boosted the country's deficit in tourism spending from $3.7 billion in 1985 to nearly $20 billion last year.) Japanese moneymen are not likely to start selling off their investments all over the world, since those were made with long-term goals in mind. But some of the boldness may go out of Japan's acquisitiveness as the country adjusts to its new financial conditions at home...