Word: mansfields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...melting pot, with European roots, that spreads across a continent. Both are troubled by memories of a global war that inaugurated the nuclear age, terribly and personally for each. Still, over the past three decades the U.S. and Japan have managed to forge what U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield calls "the most important single bilateral relationship, bar none." An American with long experience in Japan remarks, "It is something of a miracle that two countries as different as we are have bridged the gap to the extent we have...
...bilateral ties are to remain strong, the U.S. will have to realize that certain set notions about Japan must also change. Ambassador Mansfield contends: "We ought to quit leaning on the Japanese and get back to our own old time religion" of producing competitive, quality products with pride. The Japanese will also have to learn that a position of global power brings added responsibilities. Long considered the junior partner in the Western alliance, Japan may finally be ready for full membership. -By John Kohan. Reported by Carol Honsa/Washington and Edwin M. Relngold/Tokyo
...Japanese are eager to reduce their dependence on Middle Eastern energy sources and are looking for alternatives. They would like to buy U.S. crude from Alaska, which is 2,700 miles closer than Iran. Mike Mansfield, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and oil-industry officials have been arguing that the Japanese should be allowed to buy Alaskan oil. That, says Mansfield, would help correct the balance of trade between Japan and the U.S. and also save transportation costs for both countries. But the proposal has been blocked by American laws that prevent the export of Alaskan crude...
...lowan named Arabella Mansfield became the first woman to be admitted to the bar in this country. No one could accuse her of starting a trend; as recently as 1960, perhaps 3% of the nation's lawyers were female. Then in the 1970s the bars to the bar began to fall. Today 12% to 14% of the more than 600,000 lawyers practicing in the U.S. are women, and they make up more than one-third of the current enrollment at law schools...
...Mansfield raises a harder problem, the complexity of the tax law. Not only does this make compliance difficult ("It has got to the point where professionals like myself cannot be competent in all areas and are beginning to specialize within specialties"), but it requires unrealistic levels of sophistication among agents and examiners. Even worse, it fosters the impression that paying taxes is a game, whose object is to beat the system. "There is no substitute for a simple, less bulky and more understandable tax structure," says Mansfield. "As it stands now, a person observes a neighbor cheating and thinks...