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Fear of that outcome probably is overblown. Foreign officials understand that the effects of dumping dollars would circle back and cripple their economies. In an interview with TIME, Masatsugu Asakawa, a top Japan Ministry of Finance official, said flatly there will be no dollar dumping. "Our foreign-reserve planning is in terms of 100 years," he said. Holding dollars, "sometimes we enjoy profit. Sometimes we suffer loss. So what?" The point is, it gives Japan flexibility. "Who knows when we might have to intervene to support the yen" after years of supporting the dollar? he asks...
...military recruiters say the fervor over opting out is overblown...
...Boy” and “That’s When the Ceremony Starts”). This alone may be too much for some, but unquestionably deserves a careful listen. Overall, the disc’s production has the fantastic ability to sound both overblown and restrained; sure, strings upon strings upon bells upon guitars upon pianos is more than any recording may need, but, here—somehow—not more than seems right...
...while their pretensions might be overblown for a second-rate safety-school, we mustn’t blame Yalies for their inferiority. Indeed, there is a complex multiplicity of factors—over which these poor souls have no control—that prevents their kind from ever surpassing the mediocre...
...find sizes and widths and give the company more flexibility to help out independent retailers--a lucrative niche. The firm has a reputation "as the easiest company to do business with," according to the trade publication Sporting Goods Investor. As for the wage gap, Davis says it's overblown. All his U.S. plants are highly automated, with bar-coded parts and computerized stitching and embroidery machines, resulting in about 25 minutes of manual labor to produce a pair of shoes versus more than four hours in a less automated Asian plant...