Word: reasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government officials and opinion leaders played a large role in fanning the flames. For some reason, Navy Secretary Frank Knox said secret agents in Hawaii had effectively helped Japan, though he knew the statement was untrue. A Treasury Department official announced that 20,000 members of the Japanese- American community were "ready for organized action" to cripple the war effort. Earl Warren, then California attorney general, and Columnist Walter Lippmann echoed that theme with some remarkably paranoid reasoning: the lack of sabotage was an eerie sign, indicating that tightly disciplined Japanese Americans must be quietly planning some sort of massive...
...reason apologies are due is that the U.S. acted against its own best information. The FBI had been watching the Japanese-American community for five years without noticing anything alarming. There is also evidence that the Justice Department did not tell the Supreme Court all it knew about the loyalty of Japanese Americans...
...networks, the worst nightmare is a delay in the fall season. Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Entertainment, conceded last week that if the strike lasts into June, fall shows may be delayed until November. The networks can ill afford to give viewers more reason to switch to cable channels and videocassettes. Last week the Nielsen ratings showed that the networks' share of the viewing audience shrank 9% during the past season...
...airlines are leery about reining in the programs because earlier attempts to do so provoked customer fury and threats of lawsuits. That is one reason United announced its plan so far in advance: it will not take effect until July 1, 1989. But now that the leading carrier has acted, analysts believe that several competitors will follow suit in a few weeks...
...reason the Soviets are so enthusiastic about attracting ventures from the West is that they can see the budding success of such arrangements by their East European neighbors. According to a report released last month by the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe, the number of Western joint ventures in the East bloc has surged from just five in 1981 to 166 last year. Hungary leads the Soviet bloc in joint ventures, with 140 formed since 1972. Western firms are allowed to own the majority share of a venture in Hungary, and sometimes receive generous tax breaks. Yugoslavia, the first East...