jump; plunge; dive; appearing without an appointment; bursting in; arriving unannounced
kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation
road construction; roadworks; road repairs
together with; same; both; all; including ...
connection; link; relationship
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
price; cost; charge; payment; bill; fee
cash; ready money; money on hand; mercenary; self-interested; calculating
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
draft; draught; handprint; signed hand-print
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
discount; reduction; rebate; tenths discounted; tenths reduced
bank; banking institution
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
fixed date; settlement date
custom; convention; common practice; (arch.) becoming accustomed (to)
financial muscle; economic clout
unless (you do something)
fundraising; financing; cash flow
company president; manager; director
security; guarantee; collateral (e.g. mortgage)
now that; since; so long as; because
guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty
deposit (esp. on renting a house); security money; bond payment; guarantee
so-so; passable; now, now; my, my
severe; strict; tough; hard
liberalization; liberalisation; freeing
foreign; abroad; overseas
(corporate) restructuring; downsizing; laying off people
to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold); to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones; to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)
exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)
iron (steel) wire; Chinese clematis; Clematis florida; leather flower
Hakodate (city in Hokkaido)
placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary); depositing ashes