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Last fall, before the whispers became a crescendo, Clinton, with his wife by his side, shrewdly pre-empted the buzz by telling reporters that his 16-year marriage to the former Hillary Rodham had been less than perfect. Whatever it was that he was admitting -- and he refused to be specific -- he said he was proud of still being married. As to the exact nature of his problems, Clinton asserted they were no one else's business. The revelation was received as a welcome exercise in truth telling, and the issue faded from view...
...already dominated the world using top-down management. "These ideas are coming back now because of the quality movement here," says B. Joseph White, dean of the University of Michigan business school. "U.S. senior managers have decided they have got to catch up." That has helped make "empowerment" a buzz word...
HENCE WE HAVE THREE SUGGESTIONS for The Bee. First, change the name. Second, stop droning on about how the club doesn't exist. Third, admit to the club anyone who wants to join. Students, faculty, dining hall workers, business editors--anyone. Until then, our advice is simple: Buzz off, you pathetic elitists...
Highly sensitive to what foreigners think of them, Japanese chafe under a constant buzz saw of American complaints. A country that emerged from the smoking ruins of 1945 to achieve the free, modern and prosperous society that their conqueror wanted is now blamed for being too good at the game. Says a senior official, Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato: "Americans told us to be diligent and work hard. We followed that advice. Now we are criticized for our virtue. There is a smoldering frustration about that." Sensitivity extends to the way Japanese reporters minutely track U.S. opinions of their country...
...meals. The plates, sprouting salad greens, look conventional at first, but in fact, the fare is novel: a combination of the vaunted California cuisine (roughage) and subtler accents from Asia -- tuna and salmon tartare, lemongrass, ginger. Called Cal-Asian cuisine or Pacific Rim cookery, it is the latest gourmet buzz...