Word: entertainment
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...central concern in American objections to Japan is that of fairness. Americans entertain a profound respect for the talents of the Japanese, for their hard work, their intelligence, their high standards of quality. James Kielt is a retired envelope and paper salesman in Freeport, N.Y., who served in the Navy during World War II. Says he, remembering the Mitsubishi fighters and bombers of the Pacific war: "I probably would have trouble buying a Mitsubishi." He drives a Toyota Tercel. Says his friend John Wood, a retired retail chain executive: "The Japanese are probably more industrious than we. And I think...
Nonetheless, the West should not entertain illusions about launching a new Marshall Plan. Postwar Western Europe needed only an economic jump start, but markets in the former Soviet Union need to be invented. Beyond humanitarian aid, we can improve the odds for successful reform in four ways...
...entertain any illusions about Brown's ability to capture the Democratic nomination, much less the presidency. But I intend to support him nonetheless. After all, we could do much worse than to elect a passionate, sincere ideologue...
...literally billions were spent on preparation islands, cherry-wood cupboards, customized appliance corrals and elaborate Viking ranges. But these days the attention of house-proud homeowners has marched down the hall to -- would you believe? -- the bathroom, which has suddenly become a place to relax, to exercise, even to entertain...
That is why we need federal politics to be more like local politics. What's that? I'm politically apathetic? I prefer smut over substance? Government isn't supposed to entertain? I've given up on '92 and basically Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court in general. If I can't have good government, I want fun government. I want entertaining budget crises (like my home town investing $25 million in a nuclear power plant that's still not operational and may never be), not endless excuses for deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars. I want administrative idiocy...