Word: sushi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company the two started in 1996, will use computers to help kids (and their parents) learn faster and better. Together, Milken, Ellison and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs make up something of a billionaire boys' club, gathering to talk about Japanese gardening, molecular biology and their favorite flicks over sushi or macrobiotic soup...
Godzilla, however, is a special case. When one thinks of Japanese exports, one generally thinks of cars or electronics. Maybe sushi. But definitely not popular culture. There is one growing exception to this trend: Japanese animation, more commonly referred to as anime, from a children's series called Doraemon...
According to an e-mail message announcing the conference, there will be a mixture of cultural and professional workshops. The seminar topics will range from Korean Drumming, Sushi Making and Asian Drinking Games to career planning and approaches to leadership...
...sent out, and by 8 p.m. anyone interested in glimpsing a real-life Who's Who in Lima only needed to peek over the embassy's garden wall, where more than 600 guests, largely government officials, foreign diplomats and corporate executives, were preparing to make a run at the sushi buffet and raise their pisco sours to toast Aoki's hospitality. Even Peru's President Alberto Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was expected. His mother Rosa, brother Pedro and sister Juana were already there...
...first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma will be sweetly familiar to patrons of casinos, racetracks and presidential elections. It's the smell of luck...