Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the constitution, the Diet is the most powerful arm of the government, but it does not always exercise its powers. Murmurs of dissent from the opposition can produce a deadlock that lasts for weeks, while attempts to pass a bill before agreement is reached can lead to brawls and boycotts. Laws that are passed are often worded ambiguously. Members, meanwhile, find themselves devoting much of their time to constituents' requests, no matter how outlandish. A hog-farm operator, for example, kept after his representative for months to find him a hotel that would deliver him its leftover food...
...with less than $3 in his pockets. Working at a small building firm during the day, Tanaka took a night course in civil engineering; by 19, he was the owner of a prosperous construction business. After making a small fortune as a wartime entrepreneur building barracks, he won a Diet seat in 1947. Lacking the school and family connections that make so many political careers in Japan, the ambitious Tanaka built his own power base by contributing lavishly to the campaigns of fellow members of the Liberal Democratic Party. Dubbed the Computerized Bulldozer for his photographic memory and endless energy...
Despite his troubles, Tanaka not only kept his Diet seat but remained leader of the about faction within the LDP. He can be disarmingly diffident about his influence. "When one is engaged in the same business as long as I have, one knows nearly everything about it," he once said. "One could even hold sway over our party's presidential election by using the telephone and nothing else." Indeed, selection has done just that: he played a crucial role in the selection of his three successors, including Nakasone. Tanaka has retained control of his party fiefdom by dint...
...name is Ragdale Hall. A gracious old country manor in the midst of the rolling Leicestershire hunt country, it exists to restore and rehabilitate vacationers who are suffering from too much dammit. Rooms start at $61 a day, and guests are offered psychocalisthenics, saunas, massage, beauty treatments, tennis, swimming, diet meals, no children, no tour guides and no alcohol. There is absolutely nothing to do at all. It's marvelous...
...bold, primary color when its intended buyer is a man who wants the machine for heavy garage duty. Brands of low-tar and -nicotine cigarettes sport labels with large white areas and light-colored letters to convey a feeling of purity. White on cans of light beer and diet soda connotes low calories...