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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instinct about it," says Shizue Tanaka, whose family runs Tanakatei, an upscale restaurant in Tokyo's posh Akasaka area. Tanaka's sentiments are now shared by most influential businessmen: a quarterly survey by the Bank of Japan, which tracks the mood in boardrooms, recently reported the first upturn in business optimism in five years. "The possibility is strong that the economy has moved one step toward recovery," says Bank of Japan governor Yasushi Mieno. "But we must carefully watch the sustainability and tempo of the upturn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is The Worst Over? | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...produced largely by his deficit-cutting program, which lowered interest rates (though the weakness in the economy had much to do with it also). In any case, the current surge is occurring most strongly in the industries most sensitive to the cost of borrowing: autos, housing, construction generally. An upturn there tends to boost sales of other products: the steel, rubber and glass going into cars; refrigerators, washing machines, furniture and paint needed to equip and decorate new or resold houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs a Boom? | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...last 10 or 20 years have seen a decline inreal revenue," says DeMay. "The trustees felt itwas time to set up a plan with which WHRB canreverse the downturn and start the upturn...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: WHRB Changes Program; Some Staffers Angered | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

...hero to goat (and hopefully back to hero) -- the roller-coaster common to the modern presidency -- this assessment from a 1983 New York Times editorial has become a totem among senior Administration officials. "Reagan was a goner, right?" says a Clinton adviser. "But then the business cycle took an upturn, and he won big a year later. Reagan's ups and downs remind us to take the long view. Bill Clinton won't be dead until he's laid out with his sax." It's simple, the President himself explained privately to a group of aides at Camp David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: He Ain't Dead Yet | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

Sight unseen, his plan stirs hope and speeds the upturn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

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