Word: yens
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...police detective with a seedy apartment, a 5 o'clock shadow and, against his better judgment, a yen for the blond. It's the old story: boy meets girl. Boy suspects girl. Boy borrows girl's car and is almost killed when the brakes mysteriously fail...
...service exports could soon close down. That could break the world into rival trading blocs, each dominated by the strongest economic power in the region. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher observed, "There are three regional groups at this summit: one based on the dollar, one based on the yen, one on the deutsche mark...
...earnings debacle was caused partly by fluctuations in the values of the British pound, U.S. dollar and Japanese yen, which left Philips with an estimated $110 million in currency-related losses. But there were other problems. Philips' computer division, for example, has been struggling for years in an increasingly competitive market, and lost money during the most recent quarter...
DRUGS FOR YEN. Colombia's Cali drug cartel, seeking to beat out the rival Medellin cartel, has been recruiting U.S. traffickers willing to go on a long journey. Destination? Japan, a nation ripe for exploitation. Cocaine sells there for $85,000 a kilogram, in contrast to $17,000 in Miami. Japanese police, according to a secret Drug Enforcement Administration cable, do not have a simple computer system to store criminal histories, much less one that can analyze telephone toll records or trace money-laundering trails...
They're invading us, dollar by dollar, yen by yen, Nintendo by Nintendo. Welcome to World War III. America just won't be America anymore. We'll be owned lock, stock and barrel by Japan. Talk about internationalizing...