Word: yen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANYTHING BUT LOVE (ABC, returning Aug. 15, 9:30 p.m. EDT). Angst-ridden stand- up comic Richard Lewis, playing a magazine writer with a yen for Jamie Lee Curtis, made this midseason sitcom worth watching. Now it is back for a few weeks of reruns...
Then there is the industry's oddball marketing logic, in which automakers raise prices and offer discounts at the same time. Prices of U.S.-made autos have doubled within the decade, to an average of $14,000. "The strength of the deutsche mark and yen caused importers to raise prices rather quickly. But instead of taking advantage of that, American makers raised their prices along with them," says Ron Tonkin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association. This year buyers can anticipate yet another round of increases, ranging from 4% to 7% on 1990 models. To reduce sticker shock...
...relentlessly that economists were concerned that its strength would worsen the trade deficit by making U.S. exports too costly. That fear seemed misplaced last week as the dollar plunged to a level some 7.5% below its mid-June highs, closing the week at 1.87 deutsche marks and 139 yen...
...CAPTION: Yen per dollar
Many of the tribal blockades have been set up on the Limbang road, which is one of the main logging arteries in Sarawak. Construction of the road during the mid-1980s was partly financed with a 200 million yen ($842,000) low- interest loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency ostensibly to benefit the very people who are today fighting the logging traffic. Since JICA is not supposed to give funds to support Japanese commercial ventures abroad, the road has provided ammunition for those who argue that increased foreign aid by the Japanese will only further jeopardize the global environment...