Word: aoki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...requiring few skills and almost no English. Starting as dishwashers, busboys and street food vendors, newcomers gradually manage to save enough money to open simple restaurants. Featuring dishes that are novel and generally inexpensive, immigrants get a foothold that can lead to the sort of success enjoyed by Rocky Aoki, the Japanese tycoon behind the Benihana restaurant chain and frozen-food company...
...taste has to be good. That's the bottom line," says Aoki, whose operation began with a four-table restaurant in New York City...
...recommendation from a friend, an exchange of pictures or a carefully blueprinted blind date. Indeed, many young people, with the agreement of their families, make their specific desires (looks, personal history, job, salary, hobbies) known to one of 500 computerized omiai arrangement centers. Says one marriage counsellor, Yasukatsu Aoki: "If a couple do not like each other, they can refuse through our office. There are no family pressures...
...Eagle V, which lifted off and blew away from Japan on Tuesday, came down nearly four days later in a rainstorm near the little mountain town of Covelo, Calif. The four adventurers in the gondola-Ben Abruzzo, 51, Larry Newman, 34, Ron Clark, 41 (all of Albuquerque), and Rocky Aoki, 43, Japanese-born owner of the Benihana restaurant chain-drank champagne toasts to the first balloon to make it across the Pacific Ocean and then settled down to wait overnight for rescue...
...calm. This time, he said, "things were very, very bad." The 26-story helium balloon leaked throughout the 5,070-mile journey. Ice built up on its thin skin, and thunderstorms wildly buffeted the craft. Losing altitude prematurely, the crew worried about not making landfall. In the crash landing, Aoki was briefly knocked unconscious. But they were down, no one was seriously hurt, and Abruzzo was asked once again why men do such things. "For the adventure, the achievement, the challenge," he said. "You do it for the horizons that are before you and to keep moving forward." After...