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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chauvinism, anger, chagrin, even backhanded admiration. The Los Angeles County transportation commission canceled the contracts it had granted to Sumitomo for a light-rail transit system and decided to try to get into the business of manufacturing railcars itself. Cars became the center of "Buy America" campaigns. In Warren, Ohio, an ear surgeon, Dr. William Lippy, offered the 75 employees of his clinic $400 cash if they bought a new American car. Lippy became a favorite of morning television talk shows when he invited other businesses to join his "Jump-Start America" campaign. He claims to have enlisted a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lance Morrow | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...opinion. For one thing, anti-Japanese gestures can be very complicated in the new world. In Valley Stream, N.Y., Steve Verga sells Hondas, about 450,000 of which are now made in the U.S. annually. "When customers ask us, 'Where was this car made?' " says Verga, "we say, 'In Ohio, by American workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lance Morrow | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...down to Mississippi, Ganz and the group of SNCC activists stopped in Oxford, Ohio for training in methods of non-violent protest and adjusting to the highly polarized culture of the deep South...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: A 48-Year-Old Senior | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

...idea that a legal act can be made a crime retrospectively is alien to U.S. constitutional law -- as Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, often termed the conscience of the Republican Party at mid-century, noted in criticizing the Nazi trials. It is a "fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute," said Taft. "About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice." Vengeance is precisely the point for some Germans who have grievances against the East German state. But even if one views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: The Price of Obedience | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...plant. Around the nation, companies are offering incentives to workers who buy American cars. Monsanto, for example, will pay $1,000 to every one of its 12,000 workers who buys a car made in North America (or in one of Japan's American factories, such as Honda's Ohio plant or Nissan's Tennessee plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: Blame It On Japan | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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