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Then Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) comes to the Mantle fertility clinic. She is a famous actress with a healthy sexual appetite, a trifurcate cervix and the desperate yen to bear a child. Desire stirs Bev's instincts; propriety tries to tamp them down. It is a dangerous move to admit someone besides Ellie into his secret life. Love for an outsider will distort the twins' delicate imbalance. They had been complementary halves of one identity: body and mind, | curiosity and compassion, sex and guilt, Don Juan and Don Knotts. Now the seesaw must tip from sanity to psychosis...
Many analysts expect the Nikkei index to break the 30,000-yen barrier sometime this year. Says Hideo Nakazawa, general manager of Nomura's equity department: "We may hit some bumps, but the direction is up." Yet even Tokyo is unlikely to disprove the adage so often cited by bears in markets the world over: "No tree grows...
Using its close ties to Japanese investors, Nomura serves as a central conduit for the trillions of yen pouring out of Japan in search of bigger, better returns. Last year, when Japan had a trade surplus of $96 billion, its net purchases of foreign securities amounted to $88 billion, up from $4 billion in 1980. The largest portion of that outflow used to go into U.S. Treasury securities, but increasingly the Japanese are buying foreign stocks and bonds. They are also acquiring overseas companies and real estate. And no matter what type of play a Japanese investor wants to make...
...investment wave, driven by Japan's wealth and the power of the yen, has pushed real estate values beyond the reach of many Australian investors and has put Japanese companies in control of 18 major hotels and resorts. EIE Takahashi, which paid $110 million to acquire Sydney's Regent Hotel, has Australian investments valued at $400 million. Daikyo has poured $560 million into Australian property, including the Gold Coast International Hotel and the Brisbane Hilton...
DESCRIPTION: Yen per dollar, monthly averages, August 1987-June 1988; daily figures, June...