Word: sayonaras
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...career far from home, displaying the kind of resilience that, as a kid, earned him his nickname. As a six-year-old, young Karl was hit squarely in the eye by a baseball - and didn't cry. "You sure are a tough one," the coach said. Sayonara, Karl. Hello, Tuffy...
...After the war, outsiders' takes on Japan - the '50s flurry of Hollywood films like Sayonara (with Marlon Brando as a G.I. who loves a Japanese entertainer) and The Teahouse of the August Moon (this time with Brando as a Japanese!) - were mostly fond and sentimental. It was not until the country emerged as an economic Godzilla that Hollywood updated the old ogres with ruthless businessmen, in the film of Michael Crichton's novel Rising Sun - and then changed the identity from Japanese to American, to stifle Japanese protests. This summer's big item is Pearl Harbor...
...biggest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury bills. If falling Japanese stocks drag down the Japanese banks that - amazingly - use those very stocks as collateral, they might have to start selling. All those Treasuries hit the market, U.S. interest rates hit the roof - a familiar worry, but this year? Sayonara slowdown, hello recession...
Group president Carl Guardino even hints that the CEOs he represents are starting to think about relocating if California can't supply the industry with its most indispensable resource. "This is critical; they have to consider all options," he says. Sayonara, Silicon Valley; hello, Seattle or New York. Oh, and the lights are still on in Bucharest. Maybe Guardino's CEOs should sleep...
...Male-host bars?mirror images of nightspots where giggling girls fawn over inebriated businessmen?have been on the fringe of Japan's colorful nightlife for decades, catering to aged sugar mamas and scrawny scroungers with hair gel and overlaundered black suits. Kiss those days sayonara. Japan's host clubs have gone mainstream?without getting overly squeaky clean. The newly burnished male host?sans gold teeth and creepy leer?is Japan's latest celebrity. Hosts are appearing on TV talk shows and publishing memoirs, how-to guides and even business books. A high-profile TV movie about a host club aired...