Since 2003, the proportion of young Japanese entering the labour force who want to be entrepreneurs has halved, to 14%, while those who seek lifetime employment has nearly doubled, to 57% (see chart 2).
She told peers: "It is as natural for them to seek lifetime relationships with a person of the same sex as it is for most of us to share our lives with an opposite-sex partner.
It also led American anti-doping officials to seek lifetime suspensions against Tim Montgomery, the world record-holder in the men's 100 meters, and Michelle Collins, the American champion in the 400 meters.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency yesterday officially charged Tim Montgomery, the world's fastest man, and Michelle Collins, the world indoor 200-meter champion, with drug violations and notified them that it would seek lifetime bans from competition for the violations, lawyers for Montgomery and Collins said.
The USADA is seeking a lifetime ban for Mr Montgomery.
"I hope Sen. Heller knows that when he shamelessly dismisses allegations of this magnitude against a nominee seeking a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court, Nevada women are listening," Molly Forgey said.
As part of a package that includes filibuster reform, a freeze on salaries and earmark transparency, the Colorado Democrat is seeking a lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists and a six-year ban on former staffers lobbying their old bosses or staff colleagues.
That is something that Roosevelt also sought, a lifetime ago.
Blatter and Platini have themselves appealed against the eight-year bans imposed by the ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber last month, but now face a counter-appeal from the investigators who had originally sought a lifetime ban.
Tim Montgomery and his lawyers yesterday chose an unusual, but direct, route to contest the United States Anti-Doping Agency's decision to seek a lifetime ban against Montgomery for doping.
