Word: musts
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...Japanese must also decide whether to turn an unsavory scandal into an opportunity to reform their money-greased political system. That may prove the biggest challenge. Takeshita fell victim to his success at mastering the sometimes seamy rules of the system. In common with other party leaders, Takeshita indirectly received shares of cut-rate stock in Recruit, an aggressive information and real estate conglomerate. In all, Takeshita received more than $1 million in campaign contributions, stocks and secret loans from the company. The money went not to a personal account but to fund campaigns and pay staff salaries...
...much of what Takeshita did was necessarily illegal. But the endless disclosures of wide-scale political financing bordering on corruption eventually shocked a nation that had come to think of itself as a modern, democratic superpower. "The L.D.P. must change," said Hiroko Yoshida, 27, a * department-store clerk. "It can no longer stay as it is after this scandal." Takeshita, who was also in trouble for imposing a consumption tax, was blamed for exposing the dirty side of the nation's politics, then failing to correct...
L.D.P. leaders are jittery about the prospect of losing their majority in the upper house after elections that must take place by mid-August. Retaining control of the lower house in elections to be held no later than the summer of 1990 is even more important, since that body appoints the Prime Minister. "By that time, we will have political reform," said an L.D.P. leader. "The public sentiment will not be as vehement as it is now." As usual, the L.D.P. seems more interested in keeping itself in power than cleaning up Japan's corruption-prone politics...
...goes-where speculation that had already begun in Paris, where the new Opera de la Bastille is seeking an artistic director to replace the fired Daniel Barenboim (who has been named Sir Georg Solti's successor with the Chicago Symphony), and in Manhattan, where the New York Philharmonic must replace Zubin Mehta, 53, who has said he will leave...
...personalities. It is | not that there are too few good conductors, but that there are so few who meet the economic requirements: a hefty recording contract, a telegenic personality and the ability to pull in a crowd both at home and on the road. In the U.S. a conductor must also subject himself (there are no women on the short list) to endless rounds of glad-handing and fund raising, while in Berlin he must have the political skills of a Franz von Papen to deal with a fractious orchestra and a powerful city bureaucracy...