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...money is flowing freely into the exchange once again. Many investors have shown faith in Japan's economy, which is expected to grow 4% this year. Government actions have also spurred more stock buying. Since postal-system savings accounts lost their tax-sheltered status in April, some of the $2.3 trillion invested in them has moved into the market. Also, the government has allowed life-insurance companies to boost from 3% to 5% the percentage of their assets that can be placed in special stock-investment funds, known as tokkin, which offer investors reduced exposure to capital-gains taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Tokyo's Bull Riding Too High? | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...unsuccessful writers the postal service mostly outputs despair: rejection slips and royalty statements showing negative balances. For literature's grandees it mainly offers worldly delights: invitations to accept honorary degrees, chair a grant-giving panel or cash a nice subsidiary-rights check. The more typical professional writer, however, earns neither pity nor envy -- just a modest living, neither more perilously nor more glamorously obtained than anyone else's. For him, the postman's bag is ever a hilariously mixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Special Delivery UNSENT LETTERS | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...Postal Service is not pleased about the shipment, which will cost about $180,000 to deliver by truck and plane. But the agency can find nothing illegal about Krogstad's parcels, which weigh a few pounds less than the 70- lb. maximum for regular mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Cement Is in the Mail | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...what was apparently not an attempt to keep up with the recent postal price increase, a group of local activists have increased the size of their letters...

Author: By Cynthia L. Mao, | Title: Amnesty International Addresses Gorbachev | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Congress shapes a bill to help trim the trade deficit. -- The Postal Service cuts service but hikes prices. -- Kuwait' s BP connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Mar. 28, 1988 | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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