Word: ito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such as the economy of the family and income distribution. But the federal government itself now produces the statistics the bureau pioneered. And under Feldstein, who took office in spring of 1977, "The nature of the bureau has changed to more theory instead of statistics and number games," Takatoshi Ito, a research assistant, says...
...least as long as I'm here." As for the advantages to professors, Perkins says, "Except maybe in the amount it's publicized, I don't think it makes any difference whether an economist does the research sitting at his desk in Littauer or at the bureau."CrimsonChris DammTAKATOSHI ITO, NBER assistant...
...barnstorming buyers ran into two trade barriers of another sort: culture shokku and a lack of aggressive salesmanship by some of the Americans they met. In Atlanta, Keigo Yamada, executive managing director of Ito-Yokado, a chain of discount department stores with an annual sales volume of $1.3 billion, shied away from a meal of grits and complained that he was meeting the wrong people. Yamada wanted American sportswear modified to suit Japanese tastes and sizes but, he says, was told "that they would have to ask their supervisors in New York." A Mitsubishi buyer offered Jose Lopez...
...talents, traits and concept of an ideal mate. Eight courtship counselors, most of them wives of Mitsubishi executives, guide candidates in making final selections. "Mitsubishi boys and girls spend a lot of time and money in search of their future husband or wife," says Hiroyuki Ito, a former Mitsubishi insurance executive who heads the mating effort. "We aim to cut that unnecessary wandering to a minimum...
...represent a persistent tradition in Japan-one recent study estimated that 20% of matches in Tokyo are still put together by parents-but company counselors insist that they exert no pressure on employees to marry their printout partners. Mitsubishi executives do admit that they value such intramural mergers. Says Ito: "When the wife shares the same corporate frame of reference with her husband, she can only understand him more and help achieve for him a higher degree of performance and efficiency as an employee...