Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese, virtually tribal in their consensual citizenship, have a fairly smooth decision-making process. The Prime Minister, a product of the Diet (Parliament), reports weekly to the legislature in what Columbia Law School's Michael Young calls an "environment of interaction, conciliation and accountability." In addition, Japanese politicians "engage in continual and intense negotiation with the private sector." In America, the President and Congress constantly collide, as do the Government and business...
...Louis City Hospital in 1968 with chronic genital swelling. The youngster, then 15, admitted that he was sexually active; laboratory tests disclosed that he had a severe case of chlamydia, a common but curable venereal disease. Doctors prescribed several antibiotics and put him on a low-salt diet. Nothing worked. His muscles wasted away, and his lungs filled with fluid. Robert R. died on May 15, 1969. An autopsy revealed the distinctive purplish lesions of AIDS- related Kaposi's sarcoma...
...Takeshita family have run matters in the mountain town of Kakeyamachi (pop. 4,500) on the western side of Japan. With politics in his blood, the somber young man worked his way up from the grass roots into the upper hierarchy of the L.D.P., winning a seat in the Diet in 1958 and serving as Finance Minister under two Prime Ministers. Last year he became the party's secretary general. "Takeshita knew everyone's name," says a government official. "Unlike other politicians, he took great personal interest in you, no matter what your rank." His care and diligence paid...
...still feel no affiliation with the coffee generation. Clearly, I am not a natural member of this group. When the chips are down and the four papers are due in 10 hours, my inclination is to turn away from the Maxwell House toward the Diet Coke...
Miyazawa, 68, is as urbane and witty as Takeshita is provincial and dry. A rabbit at negotiating Japan's bureaucratic warrens, Miyazawa served for ten years in the Ministry of Finance before his 1953 election to the Diet, where his faction now numbers 89. The favorite among businessmen and government officials, Miyazawa is fluent in English. All his brilliance, ironically, may be a political liability in a country where too much flair and genius, openly displayed, is suspect...