Word: ise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they have never done before- bailing out of their own national currency and dashing for inflation hedges wherever they can find them. Like generations of inflation-scarred Europeans, they are parking more and more of their wealth in investments that do not necessarily pay interest but at least prom ise to preserve value in the face of exploding prices...
...birth in 1960, the country was plunged into a nightmare of mutiny, rebellion and bloodshed. The most dangerous incident was the attempted secession of Katanga, homeland of more than 1.5 million Lunda tribesmen, who also live in northwestern Zambia and eastern Angola. The rebellion was led by Mo'ise Tshombe, whose followers were seeking to preserve their mineral wealth from their enemies, the government in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) and the Bak-ongo tribes of the lower Congo. In those days the secessionists were thought to be rightists in the hire of the Belgian and French mineowners. Although their successors...
...subjects, and made it a royal duty to take a personal part in opening the rice-planting season. Come fall, the monarch will return to the same paddy in the imperial palace compound and harvest a crop of about 300 lbs., part of it destined for the Ise Grand Shrines as an offering to the sun goddess Amaterasu...
...public explanation was that Hirohito, whose October calendar is crowded with such events as a national athletic meet in Chiba prefecture and the 60th dedication of the Ise Shrine,* is simply too busy to make the trip this year. In fact, the imperial regrets were yet another sign of the internal political troubles besetting the eight-month-old Liberal Democratic regime headed by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...
Hull Trick. Completed three years ago in less than 20 months on land reclaimed from Ise Bay, the yard was designed to build two huge ships at the same time with a minimum of manpower. Steel plates are delivered by sea from Nippon Kokan's Fukuyama steelworks 300 miles away and fed into a computer-controlled process in which they are marked, cut, shaped and welded into major hull blocks. Two giant cranes that straddle the building dock then lift these components into place, and they are welded to the hull-again mostly by an automatic process. Another labor...