Word: flippered
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...mother after his parents divorced when he was eight. His father was a singer and ukulele player for the Mahina Stars, a group that plays Hawaiian pop and is well known in Japan. It was while studying in art school that he started a kitsch pop band called Flipper's Guitar with former junior-high buddy Kenji Ozawa (nephew of conductor Seiji Ozawa). A demo tape of theirs found its way to Polystar Records (where Oyamada is still based) and the duo were immediately signed...
...first quarter of this year, job downtime - the amount of time it takes for a laid-off person to find another job - was the shortest in 15 years. And for workers 50 and over - the ones most likely to be looking for jobs in management, not the prototypical hamburger-flipper - the downtime was even shorter. That's incredible...