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...buck was worth little more than 88 yen and 1.36 marks (it fetched 238 yen and 2.94 marks in 1985); so far this year, the dollar has skidded 9% against both the yen and the mark. But the dollar's troubles were only part of the turmoil: the British pound, the French franc and the Italian lira also tumbled, and the Mexican peso resumed its free fall until the country's harsh new austerity plan led to a rebound. On top of that, governments were forced to devalue the Spanish peseta, the Portuguese escudo and the Brazilian real...
...rate, some four times as much as a similar bottle would sell for back home. A large box of Cheerios cost more than $12. But it was the meat counter, she says, that "really threw me for a loop." There she discovered roast beef for about $16 a quarter-pound. That made McBain wonder whether her husband, an advertising executive, should uproot their family and accept an offer from his company to transfer to Japan...
...Tiger Management fund reportedly raked in some $150 million in 10 days of trading. Says Peter Morgan, an economist for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo: "There is a feeling that speculative forces are challenging the central banks just as they did in 1992," when Britain was forced to devalue the pound...
Also receiving Ivy Honors was junior Steve Gerstung. Gerstung, wrestling in the 158-pound division, earned All-Ivy honorable mention by virtue of his 3-1 Ivy mark and his 16-14 record overall...
...certainly have them. Eleven-year-old Anthony, the league MVP for the last two seasons, can now out-play Coach Joe in intra-squad scrimmages. And, as every Harvard pre-med knows, being aggressive certainly helps. Our kids have a reputation around the league for using their 85-pound masses of flesh to bruise, sprain and bloody their opponents. At practice, they rehearse the slide tackles and body blocks on each other...