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...ignore Japanese interests when making major decisions. The most notable example occurred in 1971, when, without advance warning, President Nixon devalued the dollar and slapped a 10% surcharge on all dutiable imports to the U.S. Two years later, the U.S. limited the export of all soybeans in order to avert a livestock feed-grain shortage, without realizing that this would cause concern in Japan, where soybeans are a principal source of protein...
...loan from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will avert a short-term financial collapse of the 281-station, federally funded non-commercial radio network NPR's recent economics woes including a $9.1 million deficit, has forced it to cut back on many of its programs and to fire several of its top executives and staff Jan Hanreth, an NPR spokesman said yesterday...
...they accompany almost every album and are often mini-epics. Michael Jackson's Beat It is a $150,000, five-minute West Side Story, in which the singer flashdances through a cast of 80 gang members (most of them real Los Angeles street dudes) and 60 scenes to avert a showdown...
...three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia looks tarnished: the S coils like a sinister serpent. From every corner of the Big Apricot, citizens avert their eyes, hardly daring to whisper: Can this be ... Superman...
...price, in terms of unemployment and creativity, may have been too high. During his first year in office, Mitterrand tried the "post-1930s" approach. Massive government spending successfully held unemployment in check, but produced soaring inflation and a feeble franc. Mitterrand has since adopted an austerity program to avert catastrophe. The five other nations present at the conference--West Germany, Italy, Canada, Britain and Japan--fall between these extremes, yet none but Japan has avoided economic dislocation. And 22 million people are unemployed in the summit countries...