Word: questions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight 24 hours, Japanese businessman?" The satirical question, posed by a commercial jingle now running on Japanese television, has struck a chord in that workaholic society. The mock-martial melody promotes Regain, a caffeine-and-vitamin beverage billed as a pick-me-up for weary workers. Sales of Regain, produced by pharmaceutical giant Sankyo, have jumped sharply since the jingle went on the air last June and became a national craze. The Japanese are dancing to the Regain song at bars and singing it at schools, offices, athletic meets and cultural festivals...
...interminably in bad weather, often bouncing in turbulence and unable to see much beyond the murk outside the windows. After the crash of Avianca Flight 52, which killed 73 passengers just 15 miles short of New York's Kennedy International Airport on Jan. 25, travelers have a disturbing new question to ponder while they wait: Is the plane running out of fuel...
...fundamental question for Americans is what military menaces they should be prepared for in the 1990s and beyond. And what kind of defense they will need to deal with such threats. A surprising consensus is emerging among planners in and out of Government...
...talk, antiapartheid leaders conceded they were searching for compromises that could get them to the conference table. De Klerk has kept the final ace, the release of Mandela, in his hand, and when he plays it, the antiapartheid movement will feel heavy pressure to sit down and talk. The question then will be whether any solution acceptable to both the black majority and the white minority is negotiable...
...Mikhail Gorbachev posed for photographs with Brazilian President-elect Fernando Collor de Mello in the Kremlin last week, a Brazilian journalist called out the question on everyone's mind. Would Gorbachev confirm the report broadcast around the globe by CNN that he was planning to quit as Communist Party chief? Gorbachev listened to the translation with a puzzled look, then smiled. "Many rumors and suppositions are circulating worldwide," he said, gesticulating with his hands for emphasis. "All this is groundless. It has come into vogue in the international press to set rumor mills working as soon as we approach...