Word: sasaki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large corporations that finance the teams. Furuya, who had worked since 1955 for the Hanshin Electric Railway Co., the Tigers' owner, oversaw operations at Koshien Stadium before being appointed managing director. Furuya was "too earnest, sincere and had too strong a sense of responsibility," observed noted Sports Commentator Shinya Sasaki. "His title was managing director, but he was just another middle-class manager forced to shoulder heavy responsibility without being given authority to make a decision...
...Government to keep more detailed records of foreign investment in the U.S. The Administration fears that foreign investors, who have helped prop up the economy through heavy buying of Treasury bills and other securities, might trim such purchases if they knew their names could be made public. Nobuhiko Sasaki, a deputy director at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, warns that congressional passage of the proposal would be "like putting a knife to your own neck...
According to an old Japanese legend, anyone who folds 1,000 cranes will be granted a wish. The present project was inspired by Sadako Sasaki, a girl who survived the bombing of Hiroshima but died eight years later, at age ten, of leukemia caused by exposure to radiation. In the hospital, Sadako began folding 1,000 origami cranes. She could not finish them before she died, but her friends and classmates completed the task...
...play on words. "The TIME paper was just the right weight, and the car ads made really beautiful birds." Finally, Koyama made a special bird, gluing the signature at the end of this column to one wing and her own signature to the other. It was placed at Sadako Sasaki's grave in Hiroshima...
...addition, Sasaki Associates suggested that the University rearrange lighting in two key areas of the Yard: the quadrangle between Widener Library, Emerson and Sever, and the area between Widener and Weld. Saltonstall says the project would probably cost more than $50,000 and would be "very sensitive" because of the historic nature of the Yard. Although some lighting changes are almost certain to be made in the Yard, he adds, they are probably a year or more away...