Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swift and sweeping changes are in store. "This is just more rhetoric," said John McDonnell, a group vice president for the Electronic Industries Association. "Old habits will die hard," agreed Chairman Edson Spencer of Honeywell, the Minneapolis-based computer company. An American official based in Japan called Nakasone's speech a "big yawn...
...calm the protectionist furor in Congress, where both the House and Senate have overwhelmingly passed resolutions calling on the President to retaliate against Japan unless it reduces import restrictions. Said Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri: "The problem is not going to be solved by a single Nakasone speech or package of promises. The only thing that counts is results." Agreed Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat: "We essentially have here an unsecured promissory note, and if our negotiations with Japan continue as they have in the past, it is probably nonnegotiable...
...timing of Nakasone's speech was no coincidence. It came just before representatives from Japan and other industrial countries gathered last week in Paris for the annual ministerial meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Shintaro Abe, the Japanese Foreign Minister, admitted beforehand that his country wanted to avoid being made a "scapegoat" at the Paris session. As expected, the U.S. pressed at the meeting for a new round of multilateral trade negotiations. The ministers agreed that those talks should start "as soon as possible." A firm date, probably in 1986, may be set when the leaders...
...speech last week, Nakasone seemed to be trying to sidestep the bureaucracy with a direct appeal to Japanese businessmen and the public. Some critics thought that Nakasone's call for people to spend $100 on imports was a public relations ploy designed for American consumption, but many Japanese commentators considered it a reasonable and serious proposal. Despite charges that Japanese markets are closed, a wealth of American products are readily available in most Japanese cities and towns. Among them: B.F. Goodrich tires, Mercury outboard motors, Corning cookware, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Avon cosmetics, Simmons mattresses and Apple computers...
...Speech errors, such as slips of the tongue and odd pauses, often reveal lying, Ekman says, but body language provides the richest lode of information because liars usually do not bother to conceal it. When he showed volunteers films of several nursing students, some of whom had been told to lie, those volunteers who saw only soundless, neck-down films of the students were able to identify the liars and truth tellers about 65% of the time. A control group that studied only the faces and heard the words of the nurses got 50% of the answers correct, no better...