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...economy now depends on international trade. The Mexican peso's collapse has sullied NAFTA, and makes it harder for Washington to argue the instant benefits of free trade. But the trend toward international economic interdependence is inexorable, and those who participate--some 10 million Americans owe their jobs to exports--are a natural constituency for more robust U.S. leadership...
Thompson, who Pond calls a sister, helped him survive during his high school years. "For what I'm doing, for whom I'm becoming, I owe it to people like Judy [Thompson]," Pond said...
...best-seller list in 1955, Nabokov was a popular instructor of literature at Cornell, a productive but obscure author of exotic fiction and chess problems, and an even lesser known authority on butterflies. His genius for transforming sensory impressions into language may always remain elusive, but his descriptive powers owe much to training in natural science...
...sheer energy of Hanoi startled veterans of our 1985 Newstour, who remembered little but drab poverty. This time we saw a Vietnam bursting with commerce, construction, luxury hotels and growth in every sector. "We owe our prosperity to the new policies of the government," said a villager in Dinh Bang, 12 miles from Hanoi, and for once the party line is true. Ten years ago, the heirs of Ho Chi Minh concluded that their country was stagnating and decided to build an internal market while inviting foreign investment. The country still has a one-party state and a sluggish bureaucracy...
...dialogue from the novel be restored. "In the original script it said something like, 'Where's my coat? You better find it. It cost $400.' But in the book it was, 'You see a black leather jacket, fingertip length, has lapels like a suitcoat? You don't, you owe me three seventy-nine ... You get the coat back or you give me the three seventy-nine my wife paid for it at Alexander's.' It was the detail. I said I'd do the movie, but they had to put back everything they paraphrased." This took three weeks, but "they...