Ten months later the steel-stomached traders who bought those banks at the bottom had doubled or tripled their money.

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That is the kind of threat Mr Fujimori has never stomached for long.

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Tall and flat-stomached, tieless--in a button-down shirt--he bounced on the balls of his feet like a middleweight, explaining his business, an on-line investment bank.

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