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...people known throughout Japan as kenjitsu (rock solid). Compared with residents of Osaka, where personal and corporate bankruptcy rates are among the highest in the nation, Nagoyans are frugal. Local companies resisted making foolish bets during the bubble years, hence avoiding most of the damage from the crash. To this day, Nagoya companies sport some of the lowest debt loads in the country...
...breakfast, in Walker's view, is low-fat milk and a whole-grain cereal, or eggs, toast and jam. Although teenagers often reach for cola and sweets for a quick energy surge, that is not the way to go into a long exam. Such foods tend to make you crash after an hour or so. For snack breaks during an exam, Walker suggests trail mix or energy bars. The carbohydrates they contain give a quick boost, while the proteins and fats are broken down more slowly...
That late-summer anxiety was short-lived, though. Hitting the weight room in earnest with the upperclassmen and skating in captain’s practice prior to the season’s start, Pelle worked himself into the shape he’d need to crash the net as he had throughout his career with the Apple Core...
...this year is estimated to be $900 million, paying the salaries of an additional 1,000 accountants, lawyers and economists. No one expects those changes to eliminate corporate fraud entirely. But CEOs may no longer claim, like the old joke about the drunk driver who gets in a car crash, that they were sitting in the backseat. --With reporting by Barbara Kiviat/ New York
...tracking trends." The ETS, in the words of PTC executive director Tim Winter, logs "every incident of sexual content, violence, profanity, disrespect for authority and other negative content." The ETS analysts don't monitor premium channels, which is just as well, because an episode of Deadwood would presumably crash the system. The ETS is thoroughly indexed by theme--"Threesome," "Masturbation," "Obscene Gesture." With it, the group can detect patterns of sleaze and curses and spotlight advertisers who buy on naughty shows. It is a meticulously compiled, cross-referenced, multimegabyte Alexandria Library of smut...