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...Toshiyuki Nakamura, who was president of Japan's third largest paintmaker, Dai Nippon Toryo, was meeting in March with other executives in his office when he suddenly put his hand to his chest and fell from his chair, dead of a heart attack at 62. Nakamura had been trying to engineer a recovery for the company, which had plunged heavily into debt...
...Kosuke Asano, 63, president of Nippon Light Metal, felt fit enough to walk 20 minutes to his office each morning from a train station. But after returning home from work one day in March, he died of a stroke. His company, Japan's largest aluminum producer, had been battered by cheap imports and was desperately trying to diversify into consumer products like ice cream-making machines...
...unexpected death toll has heightened the anxiety in the business community and given the Japanese press a cause celebre. Story after story has likened the fallen business leaders to martyred warriors. Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily newspaper, ran a feature under these scary headlines: SUDDEN DEATHS OF CORPORATE HEADS; DISEASE-FREE SOLDIERS UNDER HEAVY STRESS FROM RECESSION AND THE STRONG YEN. The Sunday Mainichi referred to the trend as "death in combat...
...depictions of the squalor in Chicago slaughterhouses. Since then conditions in the U.S. meat-packing industry have improved considerably, but they are still far from ideal. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration last week proposed a record $2.59 million fine against IBP, alleging that in 1985 and 1986 the largest U.S. meat-packer knowingly failed to record 1,038 job-related injuries and illnesses at its Dakota City, Neb., plant. The unreported cases included knife wounds, concussions, burns, hernias, fractures and carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful condition of the wrist and hand often caused by repetitive motion...
...televangelists are also suffering where it hurts the most -- among viewers. Arbitron, which measures the size of local- and cable-television audiences, says most TV ministries have suffered a significant fall in viewership. Concurs Fred Vierra, president of United Cable, the nation's eighth largest operator: "We do not see their audiences growing. They're staying relatively flat." One evangelist cracks, "I was in West Irian on the island of New Guinea, and even some of the Stone Age people are familiar with the PTL scandal. That's how far it has gone...