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...then Japan again in 1972. Its main island, called Okinawa like the rest of the prefecture, is home to no less than 38 U.S. military facilities. And yet tourists and dream-seekers from the Japanese mainland flock to the archipelago's 60 tropical islands precisely for its slice of red, white and blue, an ethos Okinawa cultivates. Reminders of Uncle Sam abound?America Mart, America Hotel and Club America. Restaurants offer steak, ice cream and hybrid dishes like taco rice. Military surplus stores sell American flak jackets, dog tags, camouflage pants and old grenades...
...work, it doesn't mean much: only that he was and presumably still is intrigued and delighted by the sight of multiple-produced American food. Not so much the package (like the soup can) as the soup itself, or for that matter the sandwich, the cake or the slice of pie, sitting there in virginal garishness, the coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits, under the fluorescent tubes in the glass diner case...
...wall? It used to be a serious matter, the invisible boundary within a brokerage house that separated analysts who tracked companies from the investment bankers who pumped those companies full of outside money and brought them public (or helped them merge, or get bought out) and took a lucrative slice for themselves. The analysts were supposed to provide the information, not only for the dealmakers (who frequently became big investors in their projects along the way) but for the ordinary investor. But they weren't supposed to write glowing research reports because the dealmakers needed a sales pitch to attract...
BODY SMARTS CRUNCH BARS Muscling into PowerBar territory, Viagra maker Pfizer has fortified these chocolate and fruit-chew "nutraceuticals" with as much iron as a cup of spinach, as much fiber as a slice of bread and--surprise!--more flavor than a piece of cardboard...
...While the first "revolution" of GE under Welch's watch was characterized by a slice-and-dice philosophy, subsequent phases have focused on growth of both informality and of quality control...