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While nimble executives like Minohara have coped with the strong yen and its relentless rise since January, Japanese business leaders were shaken last week when the currency soared to a record 80.15 to the U.S. dollar. (The dollar fetched 240 yen 10 years ago.) Tokyo responded by slashing the Japanese central bank's discount rate from 1.75% to a record low of 1%. The idea was to make any interest-bearing Japanese investment less attractive to foreign investors who might then choose to put their money in dollar-denominated bonds and thus strengthen demand for that currency. The government also...
...Hartford city councilwoman Elizabeth Horton Sheff, whose son Milo gave his name to the school case when he was in the fourth grade, has been gratified by the response to the court's ruling. "People are concerned-even the state's lawyer said there was a problem. We've shaken the consciousness of a community. To me, that...
...league standings are sure to be shaken up after this week of key Ivy League matchups and several teams' League openers...
...Crimson is confident it can better that performance this year, and that confidence was hardly shaken this past weekend...
These questions will be even harder to resolve because faith in government--already shaken by scandal, gridlock and failed presidencies--is at an all-time low. And harder still because civil discourse has become a quaint affectation for a public too willing to tolerate the same screeching hyperbole in its politics that it relishes on its airwaves...