1.   An increasing Japanese trade surplus often hurts the dollar by leaving a wealth of dollars in the hands of Japanese exporters to sell for yen to bring profits home.

2.   An increasing Japanese trade surplus hurts the dollar by leaving more dollars in the hands of Japanese exporters to sell for yen.

3.   An expansion in the Japanese trade surplus hurts the dollar by leaving more dollars in the hands of Japanese exporters to sell for yen to bring revenue home.

4.   And it comes after months of efforts by the Bank of Japan to support the dollar by buying the U.S. currency.

5.   And General Electric Co. expects to save millions of dollars by purchasing spare parts for its plants over the Internet.

6.   And in April, a scam artist duped Web users out of thousands of dollars by using software that reset their modems to dial the African nation of Chad.

7.   And they also boost the dollar by making German assets such as bank deposits less attractive to investors, who then buy fewer marks.

8.   As a youngster in a small town, one distant relative was given a dollar by a barber to go to a competing barbershop down the street.

9.   Austin agrees, saying he has seen more people turning vacation dollars into investment dollars by purchasing second homes.

10.   Blinkova conceded that persuading Russians to give up their dollars by any method is difficult.