Word: epson
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Well, not all of them, but seven of the Crimson's graduating seniors will be flying to Japan for the Epson Ivy Bowl in Tokyo's Yokohama Stadium December 23. Former Cornell Coach Maxie Baughan will lead a team of 40 elite Ivy League seniors into battle against a Japanese all-star squad...
...Epson Bowl was originated last year by the International Management Group, a large New York City marketing company, and a group of Japanese promoters. According to IGM senior vice president Jim Bukata, the organizers always hoped to invite Ivy players who had exhausted their varsity eligibility...
Bukata said the players--whose expenses will be paid by Epson Computer Company, the game's sponsor--will be treated royally on their "academic/athletic/cultural" vacation abroad. First-class hotels and sightseeing tours will be the order...
...Ichiro Hattori, 55, the president of Seiko Epson, died on a golf course in May after suffering a heart attack. In eight years as chief executive, he had built Seiko from a watchmaking company into an electronics giant. But last year profits plummeted nearly 80% because of the high...
Running a large corporation in the hard-driving Japanese economy has always been a tough job, but these days it may be a fatal one as well. The chief executives of at least twelve major companies, including Seiko Epson, Kawasaki Steel and All Nippon Airways, have all died suddenly this year. The unusually high toll in executive suites -- there were only a third as many comparable deaths in all of 1986 -- is as mysterious as it is macabre. Most victims have been in their 50s and 60s, too young to die in a country where the average male life expectancy...