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...part of an effort by government to--in a sense--put the burden for enforcing various kinds of legal sanctions on the institutions," says Irvine. "You've added another layer of administrative burden, and that can sap resources that might have been used...in more positive ways...
Suddenly Japan is caught in a powerful downdraft of pessimism. A vexing combination of tightening financial conditions, trade tension with the U.S. and political weakness at the top has sent Tokyo's financial markets into a funk. The slide is threatening to choke the country's economic growth and sap the ebullient confidence that has filled Japanese investors and businessmen in recent years. "The pendulum has once again swung in Japan," says Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute. "It's now over to the doom-and-gloom side, when objectively speaking, Japanese companies remain the strongest...
...faltering yen and a plunging Tokyo stock market threaten to choke the country's economy and sap its confidence. -- Brazil learns to live without cash...
...Hands, the RSC's artistic director, "Ken must decide whether he will be an admin man or a great actor. If a leading actor is also running the whole show, he's worried about the box office, the creaking floorboard, the divorce of his cast member. All these can sap that tunnel vision, and the performance can become too controlled...
...Left Foot, Brown's autobiography about his hard-won emergence as a painter and author, could be meat for good drama or the sap in a TV-movie treacle pudding. This Irish film is mostly meat. Knowing that the audience will embrace Christy, the filmmakers are free to make him as stubborn as he is courageous. For Christy everything begins with will: the will to be understood, to do well things he would not be thought able to do at all and, later, to be loved by the pretty doctor who would only admire and inspire...