Word: yen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greater monetary stability to the free world economy. Since 1973, floating exchange rates have been set by the free market. One of the results has been wild fluctuations, including the rapid rise and fall of the dollar over the past two years and the current dramatic appreciation of the yen, which has some Japanese exporters crying for help. Rather than bring back fixed rates, Baker's plan would employ a system dubbed the "managed float." Under the accord, the seven nations will try to control rates by coordinating action on the underlying fundamentals, such as budget deficits, trade balances, interest...
...killer, Vidor concluded, was Charlotte Shelby, who not only wanted to protect her daughter from Taylor but also had a yen for him herself. According to this scenario, the ultimate stage mother locked up her love-hungry daughter on the night of the murder. Minter escaped and fled to Taylor's house. When Normand came by on a social visit, the girl hid upstairs in the bedroom. Mama arrived with her trusty .38 just in time to see her daughter descending the stairs. Assuming the worst, she opened fire. The case was never solved because Shelby used most of Minter...
Forget the summit. Let's get down to serious Japanese business here. Not every VIP visiting Tokyo last week was wrangling over the yen and fretting over international terrorism. Anna Maria Craxi, the stylish and ebullient wife of Italy's Prime Minister, was asked through the usual very proper channels what she would like to see during her visit. Kabuki, perhaps? Tea ceremony? A Buddhist temple? Craxi had another idea: an Issey Miyake fashion show. So, snug within the security perimeter of her hotel, Craxi got a close look at some of the world's most beautiful clothes...
...somber. Westerners can decide to surrender to India; natives do not have the choice. In The Widow, Durga has been left comparatively wealthy by her late husband, an old man whose marriage to her was arranged when she was young. Feeling youthful still and strangely restive, she develops a yen for a neighbor boy, who returns her affectionate remarks with the demand that she buy him a motor scooter. This infatuation comes to nothing, and everyone with a claim on her generosity seems relieved: "The relatives were glad that Durga had at last come around and accepted...
...annual session closed, the dollar plunged to another post-World War II low against the yen, a disappointment to Japanese businessmen...