Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lake and Black have many Japanese clients as well, which led Patrick Buchanan in January to liken the two men to "geisha girls of the new world order" and charge that "Mr. Bush's campaign is virtually a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Inc." Senior White House officials later pressed Lake and Black to sever ties with their firms to prevent Clinton from capitalizing on the issue, but the effort fizzled. Explains Bush-Quayle counsel Bobby Burchfield: "If you have to sever your ties with business in order to work in presidential campaigns, people will not work in presidential campaigns...
...dominated government. Socialist Takako Doi, the first woman in Japanese history to lead a major political party, inspired an unprecedented number of women to run for the Diet's upper house, and they grabbed a record number of seats. Prime Minister Sousuke Uno resigned in disgrace after a former geisha he had patronized broke her profession's code of silence to denounce him as too small-minded a man to lead the country. His successor rushed to appoint two women to his Cabinet. The press seized upon the opportunity to rave about the dawning of Onna no Jidai...