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Nobody should know better than Hagura. As the expansion-minded head of Dai- Ichi Kangyo, he oversees a vast network of offices from Chicago to Caracas and Madrid to Melbourne. Dai-Ichi Kangyo tries to portray itself as a friendly institution. Its slogan: "The Bank with a Heart." Like most major Japanese banking concerns, it belongs to a keiretsu, an industrial group made up of dozens of interconnected companies. The bank owns stock in the companies and extends them much of the credit they need. The Dai-Ichi Kangyo keiretsu includes such well-known firms as Hitachi, Isuzu and Kawasaki...
...candidate, who has tried to portray the race as a competition between his own famous name and Kennedy's, said he had committed $7,000 for time at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July...
Bachrach, on the other hand needs to do some creating. And his campaign has attempted to portray this powerful Massachusetts politician as the outsider, who will fight all the bigwigs in Washington for "YOUR" rights. The Bachrach message is, here's a scruffy, street-smart kid, who's not going to be put off by anybody even if the name is Kennedy...
While neither side lost face in the negotiations over the plane, Peking clearly gained ground in its efforts to portray Taiwan as an integral part of China. Said one West European diplomat: "It seems that the rest of the world has accepted Peking's position that its dealing with Taiwan is an internal matter." Faced with that reality, Taiwan's nearly 40-year-old policy of the "three nos" may find itself bending more and more with the prevailing wind...
Such charges have inevitably followed successful women and probably will until female bosses outnumber males. Goldberg makes a halfhearted attempt to portray Bourke-White as a feminist heroine, but concedes "she often acted in ways no self-respecting feminist could approve." Indeed. Impediments to her work regularly aroused hysterics and tears. When Author Erskine Caldwell decided that he did not want to continue collaborating with her on a book about the South, she "raped him," according to Caldwell's agent. (The collaborators were later married and divorced.) One of Bourke-White's long- suffering secretaries came to regard her boss...