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...billion last year. "Look, Mr. Nakasone," Iacocca said, "that's just too big a rip-off, even for a friend. I'm giving you (a goal) for your team: $10 billion out next year. Tell me how you get there . . . Your call. You've got 30 days. Sayonara." California Democrat Robert Matsui, a Japanese American unaccustomed to Iacocca's happy- - go-lucky tendency toward the shrill, called the remarks "racist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spunky Tycoon Turned Superstar | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...took days for Iacocca to get over his hurt and bewilderment over the "sayonara" brouhaha. Clearly, he still has an uncertain feel for the hair-trigger proprieties of national politics. In the past his Japan bashing had never provoked such alarm. "Jesus, it was a closed meeting! These single- issue guys--I mean, what the hell's going on? How'd you like to do that for a living every day? I don't understand it." Joseph Califano, who has worked for the past three Democratic Presidents, does understand it. Says Califano: "The only guys who get shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spunky Tycoon Turned Superstar | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

Brown had been getting the most scoring opportunities, and when Rob Wheeler (slashing) and Shayne Kukulowicz (crosschecking) left the ice together at 15:42 of the second period, the 1400 in attendance knew that Harvard was in serious trouble. "I thought we were sayonara," Cleary said later...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Nab Third Straight Ivy Title | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konnichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Works of a Woman's Hand | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...squat neck, and butt his tubbly head into the midst of the national swimming power struggle. Gambril, who having built an instant title team with promises of national statistics and schedules and having roped two consecutive years of standout material, pulled the plug on the program and bid sayonara to New England for the South where sports rank ahead of the men in sheets and hoods even, where he could get the green light for an unlimited construction plan, where his crewcut wouldn't be conspicuous in crowds. Gambril, whop deserted the nucleus of swimmers who followed the lure...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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