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...terrible until the U.S. adopts a whole new set of policies under a new President. In the meantime, a thaw is impossible, the Soviets feel, because with someone like Reagan in the White House, the only heat that can be expected is the kind that is generated by constant friction...
Objects in low earth orbit circle freely until the slow wear of molecular friction and the force of gravity cause them to re-enter the earth's atmosphere at a blazing 18,000 m.p.h. and subsequently burn up. That was the fate of the first man-made satellite, the 184-lb. Soviet Sputnik 1, which incinerated in the heat of re-entry three months after its historic launching...
...Americans living in Japan. As early as last May, the Japanese Foreign Ministry received alarms from its embassy in Washington. The diplomats relayed fears of Japanese Americans that dredging up the anti-Japanese hysteria of 1942 would damage relations between the two countries, especially at a time of friction over Japanese-American trade. Mike Masaoka, a longtime Washington public relations man whose clients include large Japanese firms and American companies doing business in Japan, pointed out in a letter to Japanese officials: "It could jeopardize good relations on all sides. Why add to a delicate situation...
...Wall Street, but Glucksman hankered for his job. Said he: "This firm has been my life, and I had just one ambition-to run it." In July Glucksman went to Peterson and told him that he wanted the top job for himself. Publicly denying that there was any friction between the two men, Peterson obligingly stepped aside and took with him a financial settlement estimated to be $15 million. Glucksman's nervy initiative was accepted by the Lehman board after the fact...
...schools have also introduced new problems for Haitian-Americans, in particular creating friction between parents and their school-attending children. "[Children] get used to the freedom American culture gives them. In Haiti, kids go to school and they want to, now they don't like to study anymore," laments one father of five teenagers. "They don't get enough homework and they watch too much TV." he adds in a discussion of the draw backs of American life...