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Europeans fret that Japan's ascendance could diminish their own global stature. Pacific Rim nations recall Japan's World War II aggression and occupation of their countries and half suspect that, beneath a patina of civility, the Japanese have not fundamentally changed. The U.S., the world's No. 1 debtor nation, voices a mixture of concern and admiration. "No country is more important to our economic future than Japan," says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. "You want Japan to assume more foreign policy responsibility in the world, but in partnership with...
...each week passes, Jackson's influence seems to diminish. Both The Boston Herald and the Globe ran page one headlines telling of the way Dukakis' forces successfully trounced the Jackson delegates as the party's platform was drawn...
Like their generation, David and Harriet engage in a rebellion, but it is a reactionary one. They disapprove of the lax morality of their era and the feeling that "the spirit of their times, the greedy and selfish sixties, had been so ready to condemn them...to diminish their best selves...
...focuses on the worth-while and so-called apolitical nature of the senior class gift. However, while the class gift may not appear to have anything to do with South Africa, it is not devoid of ethical and political implications. The commendable purpose of the class gift does not diminish the need to take a stand against injustice in South Africa...
...know-how to produce an era of unprecedented prosperity with peace. "It is not apocalypse now," he insists. If the deficits shrink more and there is no recession ("I see nothing out there to indicate that the economy is not going to keep growing"), then expansion could diminish that specter of a $2.4 trillion debt making hostages of young Americans. Banishing fear is the heart of politics...