Word: yam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slip that triggered the attack against the HKD. During a weeklong run-and-gun battle between speculators and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the peg remained firm. (The HKD is pegged to the U.S. dollar at a ratio of 7.8 to 1.) A defiant Joseph Yam, head of the HKMA, vowed in the press conference, "I am going to hit them [speculators] where it hurts." But the defense cost Hong Kong billions (the government had to buy Hong Kong dollars with U.S. dollars) and did little to discourage speculators...
...YAM! Low-dose estrogen derived from yams and soy may protect women from osteoporosis just as well as today's higher-dose pills (made from horse urine). And it has fewer side effects...
...what has the government done? It has looked upon a woman who tried to turn herself into a yam- flavored candy bar and...censored her? Jailed her? Deported her? No, no: it decided not to give her money...
...China's notorious corruption will ooze across the border. "Of course it will filter into Hong Kong," warns a Western diplomat on the mainland who handles scores of such complaints. "It's inevitable because it's cultural, it's the way business is done here." To that, tough Lily Yam, the new chief of the Anticorruption Commission, responds, "Do I have the nerve to pursue an investigation if it involves someone very important? The answer is an unequivocal yes." Anthony Neoh, 50, chairman of the Security and Futures Commission, must find a way to regulate bad influences from the primitive...
...wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told a town-hall gathering in April--as his idol, Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. And as a devout libertarian conservative, the House majority leader steers by strong convictions--against farm subsidies, in favor of opening U.S. borders to more immigrants--even when those convictions...