Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight 24 hours, Japanese businessman?" The satirical question, posed by a commercial jingle now running on Japanese television, has struck a chord in that workaholic society. The mock-martial melody promotes Regain, a caffeine-and-vitamin beverage billed as a pick-me-up for weary workers. Sales of Regain, produced by pharmaceutical giant Sankyo, have jumped sharply since the jingle went on the air last June and became a national craze. The Japanese are dancing to the Regain song at bars and singing it at schools, offices, athletic meets and cultural festivals...
Last November Epic/Sony released a CD single of the jingle, sung by actor Saburo Tokito, who plays an oddly intrepid businessman in Regain's surreal commercials. So far, the CD has sold 300,000 copies and topped the Japanese pop-music chart. Definitely not amused: Japan's Labor Ministry, which has been trying to persuade the Japanese to shorten their workweek...
Only three months ago, Boston businessman Charles Stuart was pitied as the victim of a brutal, senseless crime. On the way home from a childbirth class at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Stuart was shot in the abdomen by a robber, but managed to use his car phone to summon aid for his mortally wounded, seven-months-pregnant wife. Last week Stuart, 29, jumped to his death from a bridge over Boston's Mystic River as police were moving in to arrest him for committing her murder. His legacy: a rebirth of racial tensions in a city that had seemed...
...corruption cases the authorities have pursued, Cojuangco's wife Margarita was suspected of having taken a $1 million bribe from an Australian businessman last year to help him obtain a gambling-casino license. In the end, the National Bureau of Investigation filed no charges: the probers said the Australian had been duped by a woman who impersonated Cojuangco's wife...
...Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that since 1983, Durenberger had charged the Senate nearly $10,000 for rental of a condominium he had owned, which he used while in the state. To justify the reimbursements, Durenberger transferred title on the condo to a partnership he set up with a local businessman; the partnership billed the rent. The new deed was drawn up in mid-1984 but backdated to July 1983, when Durenberger began claiming the expenses...