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...opening up. U.S. sales of telecommunications equipment in Japan, for example, reached $263.3 million last year, up from $106 million in 1985. Yet the U.S. is basing its current trade complaints at least partly on the problems Motorola has faced in getting frequency clearance in Tokyo for the cellular telephones it is selling in Japan; Tokyo considers the grievance too small to justify the hubbub surrounding it. Observes Peter Tasker, British author of The Japanese: "Japan is not alone in some of these disputes. Try selling telecommunications to the French...
While moderate legislators saw Bush's limited response as a well-measured step, some members of Congress felt that the President had failed to flex the Super 301 muscle firmly enough. They contended that Japanese barriers extended well beyond the three areas cited, to items ranging from cellular phones and medical equipment to fish products and aluminum. "The Administration's feeble use of the Super 301 provision comes in the face of our continuing trade deficit," said Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, whose tough trade proposals gave rise to the Super 301 legislation. "((Bush)) has signaled to the world that...
...except for an occasional harmless lapse). Instead, in a remote corner of southwestern Virginia, 1,400 striking miners -- and even their wives and kids -- were all decked out in jungle fatigues. A public relations firm was pumping out pamphlets excoriating the bosses. Strike leaders with beepers, walkie-talkies and cellular telephones were blasting orders, tuning in scanners to chart the movements of the state police and faxing messages to union headquarters in Washington. And get this, John L.: the union actually launched a stockholders' proxy fight and succeeded in pressuring its employer to issue its first dividend since...
...average time required to play an 18-hole course often shoots up from less than four hours to five hours or more. Other players do not seem to understand that golfing is meant to get them away from the office. "There is nothing as disturbing as hearing a cellular telephone ring right in the middle of your swing," says Steve Lesnik, president of the company that manages the Kemper Lakes club outside Chicago...
...VanDyke and Bell read newspapers while Ford unlocks a small beige filing cabinet in a corner of the office. Within the drawers are SafeStreets' treasures: a cellular telephone, two beepers, the reflective sashes, two flashlights and a log book...