Word: yen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students, however, will encounter a financial complication because the People's Republic limits the amount of money students may take out of the country to 30 Chinese yen ($21). The students, therefore, will be on nearly full scholarships while they are here...
Japanese manufactured goods are already much more competitive than ours on world markets. The United States trade balance worsened in the last decade, even while the dollar has dropped in value by about one-third compared to the yen. Meanwhile, the Japanese trade balance became more favorable, and the trend is most striking in manufactured goods. In 1978 Americans for the first time in many years imported 5 billion dollars more of manufactured goods than we exported. Japan exported 76 billion dollars more of manufactured goods than it imported...
Japan is another major industrial power that has held its own against inflation, which was only 3.6% in 1979. This was accomplished, despite a heavy dependence on imported oil and raw materials, by streamlining production processes and maintaining the yen's high exchange value. Since the autumn of 1979, however, a considerable decline of the yen and external price factors have driven consumer prices upward. Last week the government of Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira announced a new anti-inflation package, including sharp cuts in public-works spending and an increase in interest rates...
...CLEARLY, though, this Lear is Sellars' work. He rarely lets his actors act, posing them for effect without reason, hiding them in shadows and drowning them out with the scratching of the steel cellos. Sellars' yen for the visually spectacular became evident in last year's Three Sisters, when he vividly rendered Chekhov's work but stretched it to more than three hours by inserting a handful of maddeningly long silences and a half dozen Chopin nocturnes. Now we expect more than flashy technique from Sellars. We want drama...
...lawyer's younger brother (Mark Blum) is an unemployment fetishist with a yen for pot, coke and sex. His girlfriend (Carolyn Hurlburt) does mental-rehabilitation work and seems to be indesper ate need of it herself...