Word: yen
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...yen to fix the unbroken often leads nowhere. Singin' in the Rain was not really improved by being turned into a splashy Broadway musical. Casablanca will not be improved if it is remade with John Travolta as Rick and Brooke Shields as Ilsa, with Prince singing As Time Goes By. Come to think of it, would baseball be improved if we speeded it up for today's busy audiences by ending the game after six innings? Do we really need a new national anthem, with a tune that can be sung and words that can be remembered...
...enough to strangle her abusive husband with a belt. You will think you're loving Out because it's a tense, atmospheric, sweaty, claustrophobic, cutting-up-bodies-in-the-bathroom crime thriller. But it's also a journey through a rarely glimpsed Japan, a lower-middle-class Japan of yen-hungry loan sharks and ragged tatami mats. Housewives don't come any more desperate than this...
...Japan slips back into recession as the yen strengthens; exports to China don't help...
...hoped-for orderly decline of the dollar gives way to a sharp drop; the euro hits $1.50, the yen...
...flatly there will be no dollar dumping. "Our foreign-reserve planning is in terms of 100 years," he said. Holding dollars, "sometimes we enjoy profit. Sometimes we suffer loss. So what?" The point is, it gives Japan flexibility. "Who knows when we might have to intervene to support the yen" after years of supporting the dollar? he asks...