On his notepad he has written, in deep, page-scoring ballpoint, two bullet points: "advertising authority" and "hostile environment".
One street in Ota, once filled with top-notch mould-makers and other small manufacturers, initially dubbed "bankruptcy street" was subsequently renamed "suicide street", reflecting growing pressure from loan sharks.Kazuo Hori, president of Koyo Seiko, a mould-maker mainly for ballpoint pens, says he has lost almost half his business, mostly to China, over the past year or so.
Mr Bouabré has recorded an oral history of his Bété tribe with hundreds of small, colourful pictograms in ballpoint, ink and pencil on cardboard, interpreting everything from world history to the movement of the heavens.
Common sense today, but revolutionary at the time, and rejected by much of the medical establishment.As well as A-bombs and holograms, Hungarians have brought the world all manner of inventions, including Laszlo Biro's ballpoint pen, Donat Banki and Janos Csonka's carburettor and Peter Goldmark's LP records.
It even found room for an explanation of where ballpoint pens vanish to.
People who used to buy copiers and ballpoint pens now talk strategy with directors because, says Ariba's Steve Muddiman, "their spend-management expertise is becoming highly valued".
Two of the papers were death threats scribbled in scratchy ballpoint, another was a school document validating her story.
He stuck to a wide range of sensible business interests, among them hotels, ballpoint pens and property.
Large areas of the Earth are now littered with disused aluminium cans, ballpoint pens, paper clips and plastic bags, among other debris.
This could help".The overzealous hand behind these notes belongs not, in fact, to a friend (or mean-spirited neighbour) but to one of the low-paid scrawlers employed by the hour to "personalise" direct mail with their ballpoint pens.
IT HAD the trappings of any other political party convention in Germany: the same airless arena, the same corporate kiosks offering free ballpoint pens.
