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...better to visit America, some foreigners say, than to live here. Electrical Engineer Makoto Takayasu, 35, expected to go back to Japan with some savings after working on a research grant at Purdue University. But the decline of the dollar has just about wiped out what he set aside. "My wife is encouraging me to spend every dollar we have before we return to Japan," he laments. "She's not far from right. The dollar is not worth anything any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dizzy Days for the Dollar | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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