Word: mousetrapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most Japanese -- like most Americans -- place the responsibility for U.S. economic troubles largely on Americans themselves. "Whatever happened to the good old Emersonian credo that if you build a better mousetrap, the world . will beat a path to your door?" asks Masao Kunihiro, an anthropologist who is also a member of the Diet's Upper House. "That is what made America what it is today, economically and industrially powerful. But many of us, rightly or wrongly, now feel that the U.S. is no longer turning out mousetraps which are better than ours. Sadly, there's been an erosion...
...agree. Well, I'd say that if anything, the book probably grew out of the impulse to understand my father and by extension, by following that tale back into the mousetrap, that [writing the book] was a way of finding out what happened to him and thereby what happened in history. I was trying to understand where history and his story overlapped...
Enter the man who may have finally invented a better mousetrap: political scientist James Fishkin, chairman of the government department at the University of Texas. He calls his innovative method for bridging the chasm between electors and the elected "a deliberative opinion poll." The voters will get a chance to see how it works on national public television next January...