Word: hata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imposition of unsolicited self-exposure would be unthinkable to Franklin Hata, a retired medical-supply provider in Bedley Run, an affluent suburb north of New York City. Customers and other downtown merchants call him Doc, in deference to his business. The honorary title is also a well-meaning way of saying, "You may be Japanese, but you have been in town long enough...
...Hata knows better. He is a Japanese of Korean descent who is used to working hard for acceptance. Yet no one, not even his adopted Korean-born daughter Sunny, knows, or much cares to know, the man behind the Chamber of Commerce smile...
...feared from the beginning that the negotiations would fail and the war, and the brutal siege of Sarajevo, would resume. Now that a compromise agreement has been made, she says, "I am suddenly disappointed because this is not what we have been fighting and suffering for." But Hata Bandic, 27, probably speaks for the majority when she says, "I think of what we went through, of fetching water under sniper fire, and the fear for the lives of my father and brother at the front line, and I can only be happy...
...hand forced by a looming no-confidence vote he was nearly certain to lose, Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata announced his resignation just two months after he took office. Reflecting recent political turmoil, Hata's successor will be Japan's seventh PM since...
Japan's two largest political parties failed to agree on a new prime minister, leaving the country adrift two days after Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata's resignation. The policy gap between the three blocs squabbling for power -- Hata's coalition, the conservative "Liberal Democrats" and the Socialists -- was so great that they could not even agree on when to hold more talks. Hata, meanwhile, stays on as caretaker and looks to be the second consecutive lame-duck premier Japan will send to the G-7 economic summit, to be held July 8 in Naples. The P.M.'s fall is considered...