Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...executive sessions" that the partnership will organize will likely have three to four faculty members going to Osaka to discuss various economic issues, Davis said. The sessions will probably start...
...These are business executives from the Osaka region who will come here for one to two semesters and will work on research that fits into the center for business and government's mission," Davis said...
...digital sleight of hand, few artists ply their trade more slyly than Yasumasa Morimura. Inserting his image into famous works, this Osaka-based master becomes the languorous courtesan (and her maid) in Manet's Olympia or--how could he resist?--the Mona Lisa. Combining photography, painting and computer manipulation, each piece is a wicked homage, turning art history into a gilded vanity mirror. In his new show at New York City's Luhring Augustine Gallery, the farce is lavish and precise, as Morimura continues his wry, gender-bending ways...
...Japan, where the President was safely engaged in negotiations over international finance, the Lewinsky affair intruded in a surprising way. It came via an Osaka housewife, and it had nothing to do with impeachment. "How did you apologize to Mrs. Clinton and Chelsea?" she asked him at a town-hall forum. "Did they really forgive you, Mr. President?" Replied Clinton: "Well, I did it in a direct and straightforward manner, and I believe they did, yes. That's really a question you could ask them better than me." It was perhaps the only fact that Americans too still wanted...
Still, for all its temptations, going it alone may not be your thing. But imagine this: it's Monday, 7 a.m. The big conference with the boys in Osaka is in 45 minutes. You've got to go through the spreadsheets again, rehearse your talking points and check your e-mail from the lawyers. Why are you lying in bed? Because you can. With 11 million telecommuters in the U.S. today, corporate America is sending a message: stay home. By the year 2000, the number of telecommuters are expected to reach around 30 million as the technology gets even cheaper...