Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market drop echoed around the world. In Tokyo, Noriko Hama, a senior staffer at the Mitsubishi Research Institute, warned that "it could be very hard to stop" the Wall Street plunge from sending ripples through foreign stock exchanges. Tokyo's volatile Nikkei index fell 445.02 points last Thursday, its sharpest drop since June. The index rebounded 320.97 points on Friday to close at 35,116.02, down 93.33 for the week...
...addition to the champions of today, several champions from long ago will be on board Sunday to see if the ole stroke is still there. The 1964 U.S. Olympic men's eight will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their gold medal at Tokyo by racing none other than the 1968 USSR Olympic men's eight, who have come all the way from Lithuania to race the Americans...
Stock indexes fell 1.8 percent in Tokyo, 3.2 percent in London and a steep 12.8percent in Frankfurt, West Germany, where onetrader described trading as a "bloodbath...
...investigative reporter who covered the Iran-contra and Pentagon procurement scandals, Gup logged 35,000 miles in ten weeks traveling around the globe. He began toward the end of the ivory trail, in Tokyo and Hong Kong, where more than 400 tons of ivory were imported last year. Visiting warehouses where tusks were stacked to the ceiling, "I got to see the ivory the way the Far East sees ivory -- divorced from the animal and remote from the killing," Gup says. "Most of the consumers are so far from the source that they cannot imagine its origin in axes...
...Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...