Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Tokyo's stock market has long been among the most overheated in the world, featuring share prices as high as 64 times the value of earnings, Japanese investors were more wary than worried. "When a mountain is high," said Masao Maehara, a Nikko Securities official, "its ravines must be deep. We're seeing fluctuations, but the Japanese economy remains strong." Even so, future Prime Minister Takeshita faces the unhappy prospect of slower economic growth than the 3.4% previously anticipated for next year...
Reagan, however, has never invited a foreign leader to spend the night at Camp David, preferring to reserve the mountain hideaway for private relaxation, although he has had British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to lunch there...
...however, disputes Takeshita's mastery of the intricacies of Japanese domestic politics. For 400 years members of the Takeshita family have run matters in the mountain town of Kakeyamachi (pop. 4,500) on the western side of Japan. With politics in his blood, the somber young man worked his way up from the grass roots into the upper hierarchy of the L.D.P., winning a seat in the Diet in 1958 and serving as Finance Minister under two Prime Ministers. Last year he became the party's secretary general. "Takeshita knew everyone's name," says a government official. "Unlike other politicians...
Just a few feet, it seems, can make a difference. Last March, George Wallerstein, an astronomer at the University of Washington, stunned mountaineers and geologists by declaring that the Himalayan mountain known as K-2 might be 36 ft. taller than Mount Everest, long thought to be the world's highest peak. This month, however, an eight-man Italian expedition, led by Geologist Ardito Desio, 90, refuted that claim. Using satellite signals and surveying techniques, they found that Everest towers 29,108 ft. above sea level -- 80 ft. taller than previously believed and 840 ft. higher than...
...accomplish their lofty task, the Italians carried computerized radio receivers to stations on each mountain. The instruments used timed signals from U.S. Navstar satellites to calculate the exact longitude, latitude and altitude of each receiver. Armed with these coordinates, the researchers then measured the angles formed by the peaks and the receiver stations with a surveyor's theodolite, as well as the distance between the stations. Since the length of one side of each triangle and two angles were known, the peaks' heights could be accurately determined by simple geometry...