Word: controller
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Yoshiaki's life took a less refined path. His mother was one of Yasujiro's mistresses. This illegitimate son was the favorite, and he still praises his father as "the greatest entrepreneur I've ever met." While Seiji was merely given control of a money-losing department store, Yoshiaki inherited not only the railway and real estate portions of the empire but also his father's political clout: he is close to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, for example, and backed him in his fight for the leadership in 1987. A rugged sportsman who owns the national-champion baseball team...
...raid, coming just over a month after President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office following a campaign that promised major political and economic reforms, fueled speculation that Hernandez's arrest was the government's opening shot in its efforts to control the country's powerful unions. For much of its 59 years, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) has given considerable autonomy to union leaders in exchange for industrial peace and delivering votes at election time...
...Washington on April 9. The National Abortion Rights Action League is organizing a drive to send a million postcards to the high court. Another tactic is to elicit a large outpouring of friend-of-court briefs from groups like bar associations, civil rights organizations, Senators and Congressmen, and population-control organizations...
...Government's drug efforts. Next to the deficit, drugs are the hot spot of politics. Like Bush, Bennett believes the U.S. must sharpen attacks on both the supply and the demand ends of the drug trade. But long ago he saw that education was the only way finally to control the scourge. "The core problem is the children," he told friends, "particularly children in the big cities. They are dying from drugs...
International negotiations on chemical weapons are scheduled to resume in Geneva under United Nations auspices on Feb. 7. George Bush, for one, promised last week to make control of such arms a major foreign policy objective of his Administration. As the controversy over the Libyan facility vividly demonstrates, however, controlling the behavior of a terrorist state -- and of Western firms willing to do business with such countries -- is not easy...