Word: strengthen
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...looking the other way. "This kind of activity is not large enough to attract our attention," says Masaki Omura, a spokesman for the Ministry of Finance. Says Eisuke Sakakibara, the former Vice Finance Minister known as "Mr. Yen": "There's no deep implication to this. If it helps strengthen solidarity in a local community, that's probably good. In the end I think people want real money." Sometimes, though, the pretend money will do just fine. "It's all based on trust and credibility," says Mutsumi Nagai, a Yufuin restaurant owner who accepts two yufu...
...distinguished years as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Jeremy R. Knowles rescued FAS from an imposing budgetary deficit and was afterwards able to pursue a myriad of initiatives to strengthen Harvard’s academic presence...
...clearly nobody was paying enough attention when, at some point last year, Rusnak began to run up losses. He seems to have bet that the yen would strengthen against the U.S. dollar, but the exact opposite happened. Normally, currency traders reduce such risks by buying options to hedge their positions; in Rusnak's case, he would have had to enter into options contracts for dollars. But the options he is said to have bought turned out to be fakes...
Summers called for coordinated policies of structural reform coupled with “reflation” to strengthen...
...Bush will try lots of little things to release the pressure building up in the Enron pipeline. He has indicated that he will sign the campaign-finance measure if it ever makes it to his desk. Aides indicated last week that he will also get behind efforts to strengthen the rules that require companies to disclose information about hidden liabilities. He will call on Congress to make sure that employees have ways to diversify their retirement savings so that other Enrons don't happen. And with unemployment rising, the former oilman is capping talk of tax cuts and boosting talk...