hair restoration; new hair growth
background briefing; backgrounder
management task; management function
common; in the usual course
to blossom; to flower; to bloom
together; abreast; side-by-side
transition, cutover period
to embezzle; to misappropriate; to peculate; to accustom oneself to using; to use for a long time
to be pressed for time; to be pressed by urgent business; to have one's pants on fire
terminal care; end-of-life care
bottom floor; lowest floor
skeleton (of a building); frame; framework
habit of putting things off; truancy habit
close call; narrow escape
snail's pace tactics; walking extremely slowly when voting in the Diet to delay proceedings; (lit.) ox walk tactic
yellow; high-pitched (voice); shrill
death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)
period of transition (e.g. from old to new system)
quantization; quantisation; quantizing
chink in the armor (armour)
leaving (a facility, clinic, office, research institute, etc.); retiring