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...want to be a politician or a powerful bureaucrat, become Japanese," Matsuyama said. "The Japanese are obedient and a cinch to deal with...

Author: By Michelle K. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Japanese Journalist Speaks | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...singles or doubles match will be a cinch, but even if Zimmerman, Chang, and number-three singles Shyjan don't notch victories in their respective competitions, Harvard is loaded with depth...

Author: By J. HENRY Hudepohl, | Title: Netmen Hit Road for Showdown in Tiger Town | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

...Francisco psychologist and market researcher. "I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country." Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history." Some social observers have already dubbed the 1990s the "We decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Simple Life: Goodbye to having it all. | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...persuade Congress, which can overrule the council's decisions, to shoot down Clarke's plan. "It's another attempt by the D.C. government to put the blame on somebody else for its failure to deal with violent crime," says N.R.A. assistant general counsel Richard Gardiner. A veto is no cinch: only twice in the past 14 years has Congress vetoed a law enacted by the district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gun Control: Strict Liability | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

TEXAS Lloyd Bentsen is a cinch to defend his Senate seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Safe Seats | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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