But for decades, many executives actually employed sokaiya as muscle to keep unruly investors in check during their choreographed annual meetings. … Yet executives' reliance on mobsters turned out to be a Faustian bargain. By the 1970s, the sokaiya had figured out how to become stockholders themselves and threaten to ask embarrassing questions at annual meetings.

The red-black tree is a balanced binary search tree that has quite fast insert and delete operations and is always sorted.

The new bridge (6) gives headroom of 13ft at high tide, sufficient for present-day river traffic.

Junior has now arrived. All the laws which formerly protected him as a “minor” are now inapplicable. No longer does his mom or dad have the responsibility of providing his board and room. They may help out once in a while just because they love him, but, legally speaking, Junior is paddling his own canoe.