Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect was to put a brake on the entrenched power of the conservatives, who have ruled Japanese politics for 24 years. That was exactly what many voters intended. As Yasuo Onomichi, 27, a Tokyo office worker, put it: "I voted for the Communists although I don't like them. The L.D.P. is too strong. It must be checked." One issue on which the electorate seemed resigned was the widespread practice of illegal spending on entertaining voters and sometimes making outright cash purchases of votes. In pre-election campaigning, one candidate, for instance, reportedly spent $20,000 to entertain...
...this was symbolized by the words TIME-and-LIFE-which became virtually a single word in the American idiom. Moreover, that double label will continue to exist: on the Time-Life Buildings in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Tokyo; on TIME-LIFE Books and Records, and other projects and products. Much of the experience and talent that constituted LIFE will be used and reflected by other Time Inc. enterprises, including TIME, which we hope will be joined by some of LIFE'S people. Although we are a very different magazine, we will...
...teachers. Of 70,000 students questioned, less than 2% ever turn to their teachers for advice in solving problems of any kind. What has gone wrong? Teachers said that they were too busy, and most students said that they preferred to solve their problems on their own. Observed one Tokyo daily: "The teacher-pupil ties that are so vitally important in the formation of the upcoming generation are at rock bottom...
Though All Nippon and Lockheed vigorously deny that any political pressure was applied, the deal was indeed remarkable. All Nippon's officials say that the key factor in ordering the TriStar was the relative quiet of its engines; yet in noise tests in Osaka and Tokyo, the L-1011 did no better than the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. Moreover, an industry-wide comparison study in the U.S. shows that TriStar's Rolls-Royce engines have had to be removed for maintenance at a rate about three times that of the DC-10's General Electric engines. Early...
...cradle through kindergarten. Zilkha's 143 shops spread across England to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is opening two more stores this month and plans another 120 shops in Britain. Zilkha, whose ambition is to become the global king of the baby-care business, jetted last week to Tokyo, looking for partners to open new stores, and Toronto to conduct his own market research...