Word: mount
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...wonder to Western industries; a pressure point in the U.S.-Soviet staring match; a power without arms. Looking inward, Japan sees old ways shaken and new ones moving at so hectic a pace that the nation's next volcano may erupt not from the quiescent cone of Mount Fuji but from the people themselves, who could be outrunning their...
...their lives. One psychiatrist observes, "Japanese kill themselves for more or less altruistic reasons, not out of egoism or self-pity." And they kill the children to spare them the pain of growing up without their parents. Lately police have found dozens of bodies in the forests around Mount Fuji. People travel from all over Japan to commit suicide there. The place has been named "Suicide Forest." The police have posted blunt notices there that killing oneself is not romantic, that bodies are eaten by animals or decay and can be smelled 50 meters away...
...says he will stay within that limit. "I have no intention of removing the ceiling," he told TIME. Nonetheless, he has abolished a longstanding taboo against exchanging military technology with the U.S. Troops from the two countries held joint exercises for the first time earlier this year at Mount Fuji...
Foreign policy worries mount...
Boyd began his career in the early 1900s, selling typewriters. He later opened an office-supply business in Muskegon, Mich., and was that city's first Ford dealer. In 1928 he invested in the Mount Forest Fur Farms of America, which raised muskrats. The company went bankrupt in 1931. He helped reorganize the failed firm as Vermilion Bay, and the company struck it rich when oil and gas were later discovered on the Louisiana muskrat farm. Vermilion now collects royalties on 60,000 acres of land in Louisiana. Last year the company had profits of $1.6 million on sales...