Tadanori Aizawa, a surgeon at Tokyos Cardiovascular Institute Hospital, would like to use the latest cardiac stents, metallic mesh devices made by Guidant Corp.

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Recent signature pieces include a bikini in slate gray, an asymmetrical one-piece with a wavy metallic stripe down one side and a cage-like long-sleeve one-piece made from a mesh of 1 centimeter-wide strips of spandex.

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He subsequently created and acquired several metallic construction firms between 1971 and 1988, including steel pipe manufacturer Metallor and Nord Metal, a manufacturer of wire mesh.

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