Word: yen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unusual among successful TV producers, Bochco has no yen to make movies. "You can reach a tremendous audience with more sophisticated stuff in TV," he says. "Movies have a different audience, and I don't have much to say to that audience." Trying to justify people's increasingly high expectations of him is challenge enough. "I never imagined the tyranny of success -- the way you have to deal with a new standard of excellence," he says. "Do you play the game not to lose? Or do you keep going for a win -- pushing it a bit and doing it better...
...were stunned to see that the February deficit was $13.8 billion, an increase of 11% from the $12.4 billion shortfall recorded in January. Within minutes, currency traders in Western Europe drove the value of the dollar down by about 2% against both the West German mark and the Japanese yen...
Hawaii Seafood Magnate Richard Fowler did not hesitate when a Japanese company offered him $21 million two months ago for his Honolulu mansion. Naturally, he took it. The house was assessed two years ago at $2.6 million. Aided by the sharp decline of the dollar against the yen, the Japanese have spent some $3 billion for Hawaiian real estate in the past two years, more than all foreign investment in the state between...
...movie Superman is a different matter. He has to contend with Margot Kidder as a liberated Lois Lane who can look on him with an earthy yen ("How big are you?" she asks in a tone that even Superman can almost understand). In Superman II she throws herself into the Niagara River just above the falls to tempt Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent into revealing his identity by rescuing her. Kent avoids the trap by helping her out with a tree branch. Only when they are drying off in front of a fireplace does his failure to be scorched...
News Editor for this Issue: Noam S. Cohen '89 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Mark M. Colodny '89 Melissa R. Hart Brooke A. Masters '89 Benjamin R. Miller '89 Copy Editor: Shawna H. Yen '89 Editorial Editor: Gary L. Susman '89 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Alvar J. Mattei '88 Business Editor: Henry Sicignano...