Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such potential problems, the Mills-Administration proposals stand an excellent chance of becoming law-though probably not in time for the round of world trade talks scheduled to start in Tokyo in September. First reactions in Congress, where Mills is little short of all-powerful on economic matters, were favorable; New York Republican Representative Barber Conable, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said that the proposals could be "our magna carta of trade." More important, Nixon has been weaning AFL-CIO Chief George Meany away from the much more protectionist Burke-Hartke Bill. A Nixon-Mills-Meany...
...Women are inferior to men in physiological performance," and "the imbalance between wages and productivity registers itself earlier among women than men." These remarkable statements were included in a Tokyo high-court decision upholding an earlier compulsory retirement age for women than for men. The case in question began four years ago when Miyo Nakamoto was discharged from her job as a draftswoman by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd. when she became 50, the firm's mandatory retirement age for women. Mrs. Nakamoto sued to stay on until 55, the age at which male employees must leave...
Some 260 employees have taken advantage of the service since it began two months ago, and a dozen couples are in initial stages of courtship. So far there have been no weddings. Arranged marriages represent a persistent tradition in Japan-one recent study estimated that 20% of matches in Tokyo are still put together by parents-but company counselors insist that they exert no pressure on employees to marry their printout partners. Mitsubishi executives do admit that they value such intramural mergers. Says Ito: "When the wife shares the same corporate frame of reference with her husband, she can only...
...moon landings did not meet the paper's standards: "In our view," says one editor, "there are a lot of more important things happening on earth." Despite its unusually large staff (about 1,000, including printers), the People's Daily has only two foreign correspondents-one in Tokyo and one soon to be based in London. Most of the rest of its news is provided by China's Hsinhua news agency...
...largest sum ever paid out by a government in one day in an effort to keep its own money from taking an unwelcome jump in value. Other European central banks bought up about $1 billion. Then began a drearily familiar financial choreography. Foreign exchange windows from London to Tokyo were slammed shut, and they may well remain closed through at least part of this week. European finance ministers started meeting in Brussels Sunday to work out a unified plan for stopping the speculation...