Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House at 5:30 in the morning, to write stories no one will read for a wire service that will reach almost no American newspaper. (One UPI exec describes the company's subscription roster as "more than none.") Her readership, if one still remains for UPI, comes from Japan or Internet surfers. Fifteen years ago, more than a thousand U.S. papers subscribed to UPI, only a few hundred fewer than AP. How the mighty have fallen: Thomas says she's just happy someone picks up the phone when she calls the office...
...movie theater; of esophageal cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. Durwood opened his first fully planned multiplex in 1962--with The Great Escape playing on both screens. Now the company he ran, AMC Entertainment, operates 218 theaters (and 2,729 screens) in 23 states and several countries including Spain and Japan. "Our goal is to say to the customer, 'We love ya,' " he said in 1996. "We want to make your stay pleasant...
...with the U.S.'s Asian allies. Last week Condoleezza Rice, Bush's top foreign policy adviser, took a swing at Clinton for bypassing Tokyo en route to a summit in Beijing last summer: "You wouldn't see the Governor go to China for nine days and not go to Japan and South Korea." It was an opening shot in what promises to be a sustained and challenging salvo for Gore...
...cancer, for example. Women who live in Western countries, where high-fat diets are the norm, tend to have high breast-cancer rates. Even more telling: women of Japanese ancestry who live in the U.S. get the disease six times more often than their grandmothers and great-grandmothers in Japan. Yet a huge recent study of 90,000 women has refuted the breast cancer-fat link. Fat has also been suggested as a trigger for colon, prostate and bladder cancers--but there's no hard evidence that cutting fat will reduce your risk for any of these diseases...
While Lewis was enjoying Midwestern dining, Knowles was returning from a post-Commencement tour of Asia. He said his trip to Japan, Hong Kong and China was mostly spent on of University business...