Word: mason
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Japan's government and many of its corporations have long supported the study of Japan around the World Jonathan Mason the Japan Fund's chairman, said yesterday...
Harvard has a special appeal for Japan because of its association with University Professor Emeritus Edwin O. Reischauer who was a popular American ambassador to Japan during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations Mason said...
...Mason described the Japan Fund as "one of the most successful in the fund business," attributing its performance to the rapid expansion of the Japanese economy. The fund has about 1500 investors...
...basic tenet of the black conservatives is that federal policies and a lack of initiative on the part of blacks, rather than racial discrimination, are the most significant obstacles to progress. Says Economist Walter Williams of Virginia's George Mason University: "Racial discrimination is as pervasive as oxygen, but it doesn't explain very much in itself. Greater focus needs to be placed on the rules of the game." Among the rules of the game that foster black joblessness, he argues, is the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires federal contractors to pay high union wages to semiskilled black...
...Palestinians need a state and the Israelis must realize this before there is any peace," said Zainab Hasham, a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School and a Jordanian Palestinian...