Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...routine was simple: Uncle Sam stamped his feet in anger over Japan's huge trade surplus, and a smiling Japanese Prime Minister turned up in Washington with vague promises to buy American -- or at least to sell fewer Toyotas in the U.S. When Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa arrives in Washington this week, he will undoubtedly be smiling, but whether he will accommodate Bill Clinton's demands that Japan back its vows with hard numbers is another matter. The advance men for both leaders have spent seven months talking trade, but so far all they have achieved is frustration, while Japan...
...disposing of the corpse. Interesting fantasy: Render the heroic women crypto-sapphic, mutilate the men, or cook them, and reduce one to unwitting cannibal. Let the one good male in the bunch be a sort of big black watchdog, faithful and sexually neutered, probably the great grandson of Big Sam in Gone With the Wind. White women loved the movie...
...free cans of Pepsi on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City. United Airlines promised to inaugurate regular flights from Los Angeles quickly. American Express signed a contract to return with its charge cards, the first to be admitted in 19 years. A regime that used to revile Uncle Sam as an imperialist aggressor was rolling out the welcome mat for a strategic economic partnership with Yankee might and know...
...same, Vietnamese tend to believe that the return of Uncle Sam, offering strategic security with one hand and commercial goodwill with the other, will redeem a history of mutual mistakes. "Everyone I know is interested in doing business in Vietnam," says Hong Kong-based U.S. businessman Warren Williams. "Expectations on both sides are unrealistic. When I was there in the mid- to late '60s, the Vietnamese thought nothing would go right until the Americans got out. Now they say nothing will go right until the Americans come back. I thought they were wrong then, and I think they are wrong...
...paid to buy it. Federal law permits capital-gains . taxes on the $47,000 increase to be deferred until the property or corporate stock is sold, or even to be eliminated if the increase in stated value reflects some actual costs incurred by the corporation. McDougal and his lawyer Sam Heuer say Whitewater did in fact add to the purchase price a portion of the $40,000 McDougal eventually paid for improvements such as roads, plus $20,000 in interest...