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yen

noun as in strong want

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Yen says the initial funding has helped Proton avoid giving control of the company away to external investors.

From Time

Negative real rates also make dollars less attractive to funds and folks with savings abroad, so they will increasingly invest in their home countries, or invest elsewhere in euro or yen securities, because our returns don’t even match inflation.

From Fortune

So even though it correctly touted trades such as going long equities, buying gold and betting on the yen against the dollar, it failed to benefit from its own foresight.

From Fortune

Japan’s benchmark stock index sank 2% on Friday, while the yen strengthened, suggesting investors fear Abe’s exit doesn’t augur well for future growth.

From Fortune

The amount of vanished bitcoins was 650,000 BTC (or 24.7 billion yen).

The cops say Kakehi gained several hundred million yen in inheritance from the deaths over the years.

The ministry pours an estimated 700 million yen (6.8 million dollars) into whale research per year.

This is a country where an estimated two trillion yen ($19.3 billion) are spent each year on the legal sex industry.

Day tickets at Asahidake (www.wakasaresort.com) cost 4,000 yen.

Long-yen is somewhat smaller, but is also white and tender, though the taste is rather watery.

The one I liked best was (even in Japanese things my fancy usually hits on the most expensive) just a thousand yen in price!

I had rather a time getting old Hiraoka to rent it, but an auctioneer will do anything for enough yen.

They plundered a sum of 200,000 yen from the Ono Company, and made a successful raid upon the prefectural offices of Kumamoto.

But for its passage, the deficit of the next fiscal year would have reached beyond forty-six millions of yen.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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