Word: soba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nomura and Japan's other giant securities firms have harvested huge profits from a bull market that has raged on the trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange for six years. The Japanese call it the age soba, or rising market, ascent has been dizzying: the 225-stock Nikkei index -- Japan's equivalent Dow Jones industrial average -- has surged 400% in value since beginning its bullish burst. The $3.5 trillion now invested in the Tokyo market makes it world's largest. Even the devastation wrought by last October's global stock only temporarily dampened the spirits of Tokyo traders. Although...
...flight attendants would now switch to native Korean dress. The bright and multicolored costumes include long skirts (chima) and short, flared blouses (chogori). They had orange juice and sandwich wedges on hand for the tourist passengers, fancy snacks of chicken florentine, zucchini au gratin, rice and cheddar croquettes, and soba, a Japanese broth, for the first-class travelers. Everything presumably would have seemed normal as the passengers munched and dozed their way toward Seoul...
...division title was on the line. Sowe went all out," said Soba's Strve Troy. "We're definitely going to win the whole thing now but we really want Lowell bad. We want to beat up on them. I can taste it now," he added...