Word: yen
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...four members of the Taiwanese acting-singing sensation F4 that is rapidly building an Asia-wide following. O.K., so the guys can't really act. Or sing. And they can barely dance. But they're a boy group, for chrisakes: Zhou, Vanness Wu, Jerry Yen and Ken Zhu are only required to have nice smiles, hot bodies and fantastic hair. These things they have in spades?and not a tattoo or pierced body part among them. In Taiwan, these squeaky clean little love boys are being held up as model spouses. If that sounds absurd, remember that this...
...kinda stylish. Clothes from inexpensive thrift stores, like mom's elastic-waisted skirts from the late '70s, are the height of fashion. Makeup is unnecessary. Kids get their kicks at cheap eateries, where they can flirt with kogirei (kinda attractive) waiters. Even emotions and sensations are getting a yen-like devaluation. Japanese youth don't work up a proper appetite, they get kobarabeta (a little peckish). The good jobs are disappearing, banks teetering, the population aging, and more and more people in their 20s are forced to live with their folks. It's a wonder the slang isn't gloomier...
...investment-banking business, Shinsei also launched a retail business featuring fee-free, 24-hour services at its network of 56,000 atms?a concept considered revolutionary here. Shinsei offers savers returns higher than those of traditional banks, at which, Yashiro notes, the annual interest income on a 1 million yen deposit?about $7,700?is worth the equivalent of two bus tickets. The lobby of Shinsei's steel-and-glass headquarters in central Tokyo looks more like an Internet cafE than a bank, with customers lounging at flat-screen computers while making transactions and checking stock quotes. Other bank branches...
Miss Harvard is clearly a newcomer to the glitzy pageant stage. Organizers didn’t even know exactly when or where the pageant would take place when they posted an open call for nubile youth with a yen for sequins. Most people may not distinguish between the unpolished fundraising effort that is the Miss Harvard pageant and the well-oiled machinations of the greater pageant circuit toward which the future Miss Harvard may aspire, but there are a few discriminating resident experts at Harvard—beauty queens past and present—and despite some reservations about pageant...
...investment-banking business, Shinsei also launched a retail business featuring fee-free, 24-hr. services at its network of 56,000 atms--a concept considered revolutionary here. Shinsei offers savers returns higher than those of traditional banks, at which, Yashiro notes, the annual interest income on a 1 million yen deposit--about $7,700--earns the equivalent of two bus tickets. The lobby of Shinsei's steel-and-glass headquarters in central Tokyo looks more like an Internet cafe than a bank, with customers lounging at flat-screen computers while making transactions and checking stock quotes. Other bank branches share...