Word: mainstays
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...Japan today, reduced expectations are becoming increasingly common. As the world's second largest economy struggles to evolve from its mainstay manufacturing base into technology and high-value service industries, several generations of Japanese are in danger of becoming lost in transition. Following the crash of the early 1990s that ended the Japanese postwar economic miracle, Japan's public and private sectors have been slashing their work forces, cutting off bad-risk borrowers, and streamlining operations in an attempt to remain competitive in an increasingly global economy. Many of its world-class companies have succeeded in doing just that...
...hefty fees being demanded for major league baseball and N.F.L. games. "We aren't conceding anything to the competition, but we are getting out of the red ink," says Dennis Swanson, the new president of ABC Sports. One casualty could be Monday Night Football, a once lucrative ABC mainstay, which lost $25 million this past season. (Two of the show's high-priced analysts, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson, have already been dropped from the broadcast, though Simpson may remain with ABC as a commentator on college games...
...like some of Zhang's work, still have no chance of being screened in China without undergoing major cuts by the censorship board. But Xu's avoidance of political fare doesn't mean she is content to churn out the clichéd boy-meets-girl comedies that are the mainstay of Chinese cinema. Her next two projects will tackle serious topics. One is a Tang-dynasty drama that she says will demonstrate that "court life is no different from street life." The other is an examination of post-9/11 America...
That photo features Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Af Am’s chair since 1991, and a department mainstay even as other high-profile professors—including Cornel R. West ’74, K. Anthony Appiah, Lawrence D. Bobo, and Michael C. Dawson—have come and gone...
Over the past 12 years, the original Darwin’s, at 148 Mt. Auburn St., has evolved into in a homey local mainstay, earning a reputation for excellent sandwiches that the new shop’s staff says it hopes to replicate...