Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the Prime Minister's latest disclosures, opposition members intensified their demands that he step down. "Your hands are dirty," charged Socialist Diet member Kanji Kawasaki. Takeshita, 65, refused to do so, vowing instead to reform the system. To his critics, Takeshita declared, "I have no intention of taking a quick way out of this crisis...
...licked his lips. He sipped water. His ashen face looked aged. The strain was evident as Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita faced his challengers in the Diet. The embattled Japanese leader made a series of extraordinary admissions to a special session of the Diet budget committee. Last October Takeshita flatly denied any connection to the burgeoning scandal that has linked dozens of Japanese politicians and bureaucrats to a money-and-favor game played by the Recruit Co., a $3.25 billion information-and-real-estate conglomerate. But last week Takeshita conceded that over the years he and others close to him received...
...elected politician). But on another level the question is whether Japanese politics is so blatantly suffused with the passing of cash that it is practically impossible for officeholders to avoid the appearance, if not the actual commission, of impropriety. Said Takako Doi, chairwoman of the Japan Socialist Party: "The Diet as well as politicians have lost the trust and confidence of the public...
...nearly two years before going public, Ezoe and other Recruit officials commonly offered stock shares at about $20 to selected individuals, many of them in the Diet and the bureaucracy. Once the stock started trading on the open market and soared in value, many of the recipients sold their shares, reaping hefty profits. Frequently, the transactions were recorded in the names of aides or relatives...
...Westerburg High, a quartet of teen princesses runs the school. They are called the Heathers, because three of the four are named Heather. The fourth, Veronica (Winona Ryder, pallid of face and sharp as Cheddar), is at first pleased to be accepted by this "bunch of Swatch dogs and Diet Coke heads. They're, like, people I work with, and our job is being popular." Still, she is ready for a sinister avenging force in her life, a juvenile delinquent, a James Dean. He turns out to be J.D., a new boy in town who is itching to make trouble...