Word: planner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hata's background is typical of the blue-suit mainstream of the Liberal Democrats. The son of a journalist turned L.D.P. legislator, he worked for 10 years as a tour guide and planner for a bus company in Tokyo. His hometown of Ueda, west of Tokyo, is where he likes to claim that he learned his "sensitivity for ordinary people, and what they really want from politics." Like many current L.D.P. legislators, Hata entered politics by taking over his father's seat and rose through the ranks by avoiding mistakes...
...moved their artillery. Strategically, they advised, even a far-ranging bombing campaign in Bosnia might not make much of a dent in the thinking of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, deemed the ogre behind the war. "The pain has to extend to Belgrade to have much effect," said a military planner, a step Clinton is not now inclined to take...
...stimulate the economy. When the deficit estimates mushroomed in early January, Clinton's aides said the stimulus might have to shrink, though the final amount seems very much in flux. "If we haven't figured out which combination of short-term and long-term economic proposals," said a planner, "then maybe we should just shut...
...problem of longevity. With millions of seniors eating right, exercising and forgoing tobacco and alcohol, lots of potential beneficiaries are starting to, well, wonder. "There is the concern that, 'Yes, I'll inherit something, but I may be 70 when I get it,' " says Katherine Triolo, a financial planner in Appleton, Wisconsin. Heirs beware: the typical 65-year-old man can expect to live another 15 years, while women can bank on an additional 19. Americans 100 and over constitute the fastest- growing segment of the population. Despite rising life expectancies, older Americans are still retiring earlier, effectively burning...
...give squatters title to plots of land. In return, the new landowners agreed to help build footpaths, improve drainage and reduce garbage. "Instead of thinking of themselves as temporary boarders, the poor began to look at their community as their home," says Josef Leitmann, a World Bank urban planner. "A simple change in psychology produced a change in physical surroundings...