Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kosuke Asano, 63, president of Nippon Light Metal, felt fit enough to walk 20 minutes to his office each morning from a train station. But after returning home from work one day in March, he died of a stroke. His company, Japan's largest aluminum producer, had been battered by cheap imports and was desperately trying to diversify into consumer products like ice cream-making machines...
...aerospace contractors, it is the prize of the decade: a $17 billion U.S. space station the size of a football field. Thus when the bids for four major parts of the project arrived at NASA offices last week, the competition was weighty indeed. A typical bid package ran to nearly 20,000 pages, weighed three tons and filled scores of boxes. In one competition a consortium headed by Rockwell International and another led by McDonnell Douglas are battling for a $2 billion to $3 billion contract to build the space station's framework, air locks and guidance and communications systems...
NASA will study the bids for months before winners are announced, probably in November. The space station, which will require some 30 shuttle flights to haul its pieces into orbit, is scheduled to be completed in the mid-1990s...
...spite of tensions, the agenda of costumed pageantry, fife-and-drum music, jet overflights and solemn oratory came off with scarcely a hitch, thanks in part to security arrangements so heavy that when the congressional special rolled into Philadelphia's 30th Street station, eight or so diners found themselves imprisoned for 15 minutes in a nearby McDonald's after police blocked all the restaurant's exits...
There used to be no cure for the ennui of the returned hero. Now there is and it is worse than the disease. It is celebrityhood. Last winter a Washington radio station began a news roundup with this: "Joe DiMaggio, baseball hall of famer, former husband of Marilyn Monroe, and also Mr. Coffee, had surgery today." Hero status, unless arrested by artistic device (the fade-out) or tragedy (an early death), decays. There is a trajectory to fame, and it points downward...