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Japan and China? Between Tsushima, where the Japanese sank the Russian fleet, and Pearl Harbor, where they wiped out America's, the sons of Nippon did not even know from coffee; all they had was green tea. Ditto the Chinese when they chased American soldiers down the Korean Peninsula. Ditto the British, who for 400 years ruled the seas while swilling Java that was as tasty as their food. Tiny Israel has bested the Arabs in five wars. And why? Because Israeli "coffee" could eat through the armor of a Soviet-built T-72 in three minutes...
Other partners include pharmaceutical company Merck, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Merrill Lynch and DuPont...
...route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a "cozy white warm-up outfit," as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine. I own no white warm-up outfits, cozy or otherwise. I always dress nice. LARRY KING Washington...
...into its fold. It's a short step from there to continue to buy. Might it be a good thing? Well, maybe. Global competition is a reality. It may just be that one huge American phone company is what it will take to match wits with British Telecom and Nippon Telephone in the year 2525, if man is still alive. SBC brings proven phone-company management to the party, which might help sell the deal. What we know for sure, though, is that in the '90s every Baby Bell stock has outperformed AT&T. I'll take spin-offs over...
Recognizing the problems with investment in such an oppressive country, many other corporations, including oil companies, have pulled out of Burma. Petro-Canada, upon its pullout, described the SLORC as "thugs, criminals and drug-dealers." Texaco, however, along with Unocal, Total, Nippon Oil and most recently Arco, has decided to do business with the regime and continue its tradition of environmental destruction and persecution of indigenous peoples...