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When push came to shove last week, Hosokawa got his way and Japan got a new political course. For the Prime Minister it was no less an accomplishment than Bill Clinton's NAFTA victory -- and owed at least as much to his own will and assertiveness. After 121 hours of interparty talks, the leader of the three- month-old ruling coalition abandoned traditional consensus politics to force a vote over the opposition's objections on four pieces of legislation that would radically change Japan's electoral system. Liberal Democrats, still fumbling in their role as the largest opposition party, fumed...
Both sides agree that when push came to shove,the system of proportional representation gave theCCA an extra edge in the City Council race...
...kids get it right away. Nobody has to explain to a 10-year-old boy what's so great about video games. Just sit him down in front of a Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo machine, shove a cartridge into the slot and he's gone -- body, mind and soul -- into a make-believe world that's better than sleep, better than supper and a heck of a lot better than school...
...have to be dismantled. Those ( are our cold war manners. Of course, all intelligence services like to retain their mystique. The first thing the Americans do if they get a wonderful report from the Israelis is edit it, retitle it, put all sorts of stamps all over it and shove it upstairs. This is another reason, incidentally, why intelligence assessments are so frequently distorted: the same source can fund a whole lot of seemingly separate intelligence documents. Let's say, the Israelis prepare a document which they're prepared to give to an American liaison. They're also prepared...
...Navy is supposed to be a very obnoxious team which will bump and shove you around the court," Oh said...