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...government justifies its barriers on the grounds that some Western European nations have similar illegal restrictions against Japanese goods, although on a much smaller scale than Japan. Moreover, Japan has been excessively reluctant to accept foreign investment. Many of its industries are closed entirely to outside capital. A four-step program of liberalization, which began in 1967, opens some industries to foreign ownership. While the list includes fabricated iron and steel, most of the other fields that it unlocks-including sake manufacturing, beauty parlors and driving schools-are of scant interest to a foreign investor. The total impact is slight...
Clark suggested a four-step program to help mend the U. S. foreign policy...
...Saxophone. Mrs. Doehler makes each patient practice swallowing air as many as 500 times before she asks him to make a sound. After that it is a four-step process to the first single syllable: open the mouth to let air in; close the mouth; swallow the air; and, finally, open the mouth and say "Bah!" Some determined patients progress from "Bah!" to full and clearly understandable sentences in two or three weeks. Others take many months. "The time varies," says Mary Doehler, "not only with the individual's determination but also with his family. If the family does...
With this consideration in mind, the West has proposed a complicated four-step plan, starting with unification of Berlin by free elections under four-power supervision and ending, rather irrelevantly, with provisions for armaments reductions and European security. The most interesting feature of the Western plan is the section of German re-unification. West Germany is much larger than its Eastern counterpart, yet Soviet proposals for re-unification have always been based on the idea of "federation," with the "two Germanies" being treated as two equal states effecting a merger. The West, for its part, has insisted on immediate nationwide...
...narrow space, stopping from time to time to look at the water and at the ships there. He had sailed those boats to Virginia, and brought back wealth and power for himself and his queen. Then he turned away and walked back and forth again, making the four-step turn that British sailors have used since they had decks to walk...