Word: workweek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mortgages and pay a stiff new gasoline tax. For its part, the U.S. wanted Tokyo to make it easier for large department stores to set up shop in Japanese cities, to boost public spending, to crack down on Japanese price-fixing and bid-rigging practices, and to shorten the workweek of Japanese employees to five days by eliminating half-day Saturday shifts. The ambitious talks were part of the Structural Impediments Initiative launched by President George Bush last May, which seeks to make fundamental economic changes in the two countries in order to reduce the $49 billion U.S. trade deficit...
...actor Saburo Tokito, who plays an oddly intrepid businessman in Regain's surreal commercials. So far, the CD has sold 300,000 copies and topped the Japanese pop-music chart. Definitely not amused: Japan's Labor Ministry, which has been trying to persuade the Japanese to shorten their workweek...