Word: yen
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...public-spending projects used in the past to prime the country's economic pumps. Even so, a larger concern remains: Japan's continuing over-reliance on the export sector, which has been propped up by the Japanese government's massive and unprecedented foreign-exchange interventions designed to keep the yen weak...
Furlaud said her seven-minute parody—which includes interviews with several Harvard “professors” with names like Roscoe Dullich—was inspired by Harvard’s recent yen for growth, and what she sees as a change in the University’s attitude...
...delayed. But as the value of the greenback has slipped on international markets, Chinese exports have become even cheaper. Hence the clamor from some of those who directly compete with China for the country to revalue the yuan upward?just as there was pressure on Japan to revalue the yen...
...November, the Inamori Foundation will present Whitesides with the Kyoto Prize—including a 20-karat gold medal, a diploma and 50 million yen (about $400,000) in Kyoto, Japan this November. The foundation awards three such prizes annually to individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of mankind in the fields of advanced technology, basic sciences and the arts and philosophy...
...traps guard a tiny, fast green. And I've been grouped with three aces who fly in every year from Japan to be humbled by this obstacle course of bunkers, lakes and foliage designed by Jack Nicklaus to keep balls out of holes and golfers returning for more. "Jai yen, jai yen," whispers my caddy, Sawat, in Thai. "Keep a cool heart...