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Except for gravy and pie crust, which take patience and practice, Thanksgiving dinner is as easy to make as it is to eat. You're a right-handed batter in a park that's 150 feet down the left-field line--it doesn't take a genius to poke...
...Iguchi confession was the second revelation last week to batter the once towering reputation of Tokyo's banking system. Three days earlier, Jim Leach, chairman of the U.S. House Banking Committee, had disclosed that the Fed had agreed to come to the rescue if a liquidity crisis beset U.S. subsidiaries of Japan's banks. The news provoked concern among government officials in both countries. Tokyo feared that breaching the agreement's secrecy would create financial-market anxiety by raising more questions about Japanese banking stability. The Fed's portrayal of the agreement as virtually risk free raised hackles in Washington...
...learn everything about the pitchers he would be facing, from their repertoire to which pitches they would use in certain situations. He studied each batter, trying to determine where to play him in the field...
...ended, and new people have taken over in Washington and Tokyo. On trade, if nothing else, the Clinton Administration has been consistent and tough. The President has surrounded himself with advisers who have no qualms about closing U.S. markets to foreign products if that seems the best way to batter open foreign markets for American goods...
...added to it is a tinge of fear. Last February he was abducted from in front of his home, held blindfolded for 24 hours and then severely beaten. His abductors thrust Teer's legs through the pickets of a wrought-iron fence to immobilize them and then proceeded to batter his limbs with steel pipes. When the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later, he was covered with blood. His left leg was broken in four places. His right leg, the shinbone sticking through the skin, was so swollen that the bars of the fence had to be cut away to release...