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...bureaucratic dead weight is beginning to affect even some of the agencies once regarded as the U.N.'s best, notably WHO. While many of its people in the field still do good work, the agency's Geneva headquarters is increasingly bloated. Hiroshi Nakajima, who became director general in 1988, has sharply increased the number of senior staff members from 66 to 107. WHO says the increase probably reflects a growth in extrabudgetary programs. Most of these people earn about $75,000 a year. One subordinate says, "When you work with doctors in Zaire who get paid only $6 a week...
...fund's committee in Japan, responsible forraising more than $500,000, was chaired byProfessor Hiroshi Kaneko, who was a Harvard LawSchool student under Surrey and Oldman from 1961to 1963 and a visiting scholar from...
...through hard work and foresight, while fighting off rival gamemakers such as Sega. When MCA Universal charged that the game Donkey Kong infringed on the copyright to the movie King Kong, Nintendo stubbornly refused to settle, and eventually MCA had to pay Nintendo a $1.8 million penalty. Nintendo chief Hiroshi Yamauchi also wisely built expansion capabilities in his entertainment systems, allowing an innocuous video-game system to perhaps become the home-communications network of the future. Writes Sheff: "Nintendo's success was proof of the superiority of a system that allows long-term commitment...
TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL AGAIN IN 1998. THAT IN effect was the Rx prescribed for detractors by pharmacologist Hiroshi Nakajima as he vowed to strive for "harmony" during a second five-year term as director-general of the World Health Organization. His task appears daunting. In an atmosphere of distinct bureaucratic disharmony, Nakajima, 64, emerged victorious from an 18-13 vote of the executive board of WHO, an arm of the U.N., thanks largely to Third World support -- and despite a determined campaign waged against him by the U.S. and the European Community...
Japan's recycling rate is almost double that of the U.S. -- 40% of municipal solid waste, vs. 17%. But the Japanese program shares some of the problems familiar to American recyclers. Milk cartons, one of the favorite recycling items, are piling up high in warehouses. Like America, says Hiroshi Takatsuki, a professor at Kyoto University, "Japan emphasized collection before coming up with an appropriate infrastructure for reuse...