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Word: fujio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history for the Salvadoran Ministry of Education. In 1970, Sancho formed "The Group," a political-military organization that brought together radical students and radical Christians. Like the other organizations, FARN bankrolled itself through kidnapings; Sancho is accused of responsibility for the 1978 kidnaping-assassination of Japanese Industrialist Fujio Matsumoto, among others. By one estimate, FARN had amassed $60 million through kidnapings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Powers That Would Be | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...that their future is tied up with that firm, they are willing to be more flexible at work than employees in many Western countries. New machinery is not a threat to a worker's job but a useful tool that may help improve company profits. As Fujio Mitarai, head of Canon U.S.A., told TIME'S Robert Grieves: "In order to automate production, we had to divert workers into altogether new fields. We moved them from cameras to copiers to calculators, but we kept everyone employed in the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Japan Does It | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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