Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe and Asia, some aviation experts have been critical of U.S. aviation practices. Japan's Ministry of Transport complained last month that mechanical problems had forced too many Northwest flights to return to Tokyo's Narita airport after takeoff, allegedly increasing congestion at the crowded facility. Last May a group of European airlines refused to take delivery of Boeing's new 747-400 jetliners until the company agreed to reinforce the cabin floors...
Bloomingdale's may fetch as much as $2 billion in an auction that is expected to attract bidders from Manhattan to Tokyo. Among them is Marvin Traub, chairman of the chain, who is planning a management-led buyout. But selling Bloomie's will not be enough. Campeau's firm conceded last week that it may default on $1.27 billion in fourth-quarter debt payments. The disclosure sent prices of Allied junk bonds plunging 20% in value in just one day, while Federated's fell...
...professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California: "Fuzziness begins where Western logic ends." In the early '80s several Japanese firms plunged enthusiastically into fuzzy research. By 1985 Hitachi had installed the technology's most celebrated showpiece: a subway system in Sendai, about 200 miles north of Tokyo, that is operated by a fuzzy computer. Not only does it give an astonishingly smooth ride (passengers do not need to hang on to straps), but it is also 10% more energy efficient than systems driven by human conductors...
...want to look at either Michael Douglas or Tokyo for two hours, go see Black Rain. On the other hand, if you're seeking the next chapter in the creative evolution of Ridley Scott, you may be disappointed...
Though "black rain" actually fits nicely with Scott's dark vision of Tokyo, the exchange between Douglas and Wakayama comes out of nowhere. Perhaps we're supposed to sense the atom bomb beneath the frenetic violence of the rest of the movie. Perhaps Americans are to blame for the nasty pass things have come to in the Tokyo underworld. The point's not clear...