Word: salaryman
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...Tokyo's Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living. "The families who are willing to pay have made (children) reluctant to settle for something that requires a lot of hard-ship and work." Now, these psychedelic rangers are becoming as common as Japan's stereotypical drab corporate clone, the salaryman, and their culture is bubbling up from the social underbelly, seriously changing the look of the scene...
Timothy McVeigh and the nation he attacked share one belief: you strike your blow at the moment that it sends the most resounding message. McVeigh detonated his bomb outside an Oklahoma City federal office building, with a gray-flannel salaryman's punctuality, on a workday morning at 9:02 a.m. This Monday, another workday morning, he is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Ind., promptly at 8:00 a.m. ET - smack in the middle of prime time for the three network morning shows...
...like paid, platonic girlfriends. They may choose to sleep with a client, they may not. Although there are no official numbers on how many women work in hostess bars, it's estimated that hundreds of thousands labor throughout Japan in what is surely a multibillion-dollar industry. For the salaryman customers, hostess bars, with their posh atmosphere, beautiful women and steady flow of drinks, are a choice venue in which to try to impress a client or close a business deal. Most hostess clubs employ Japanese and other Asian women, but beginning in the early 1980s, more and more began...
...many girls indulge. The cycle didn't make sense at first to Lucie - work in a bar for five hours and then go out to more bars and clubs to unwind - but after spending whole nights pretending to laugh at idiotic jokes or feigning understanding of some drunken salaryman's broken English, it didn't hurt to blow off some steam...
...Salaryman Kintaro series features a former gang leader who takes a desk job, pummels evil rivals, talks trash to his elders and scores with the ladies. Another popular series, Division Chief Kosaku Shima, is more realistic. It follows the evolution of a junior manager into a savvy world beater, as he confronts cost-cutting pressures and political corruption. Similarly, the hero of Shuhei Nozaki: Bank Auditor roots out venality at Blue Sky Bank with his superpower--a keen eye for bad loans...