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Liberal Democratic Party; LDP

1

circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral

9

terminal; final

2

to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

3

pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says

2

homogeneity

1

extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; annihilation

1

all roads lead to Rome

1

saying; maxim; aphorism; proverb

1

Wall Street

3

to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted

4

millionaire; one's superior; one's elder; (arch.) virtuous and gentle person; (arch.) female owner of a whorehouse in a post town; (arch.) chief of a post town

1

Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times

7

church; congregation

2

paradise; heaven; Kingdom of Heaven

1

1,000,000; one million; million; many

1

hell

1

to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around

1

Roman Catholic Church

1

military force; military strength

1

bureaucratic organization; bureaucracy

1

political system

1

to prosper; to flourish

1

have to do; must; should; ought to

1

International Monetary Fund; IMF

1

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; GATT

1

North-South problem

1

being actualized; becoming apparent; becoming tangible; surfacing

2

in general; generally; mostly; gist; point; main idea

1

northern hemisphere

1

southern hemisphere

1

to be overturned; to be reversed; to turn over; to fall down; to tumble down; to topple over

1

oil crisis (esp. 1973 OPEC oil crisis); oil shock

1

resources

6

Middle East

2

oil; petroleum; kerosene; paraffin

1

mining

1

if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so

3

this time; now; next time; another time; recently; lately

2

oil-producing countries (nations)

1

to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)

2

Japan Business Federation; Keidanren

1

antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation

1

Nikkei (newspaper, share index)

2

two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)

1

diversification

1

to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home

3

management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons

1

professional job; profession

1

three; three years of age

7