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Most U.S. businessmen are convinced that the Japanese stack the trade deck outrageously against them. Chicago-based FMC sells soda ash, used in glassmaking and other processes, for $70 to $75 a ton in the U.S.; the product sells for $240 to $250 a ton in Japan. But FMC and other U.S. makers are allowed to supply only 200,000 of Japan's annual requirement of 1.4 million tons. Says FMC Chairman Robert H. Malott: "Soda ash is soda ash is soda ash. If that market were truly open, we would have...
...future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette to explain how to stack them...
...startup of the diesels means that the 6.4 megawatt MATEP can finally start achieving the energy efficiency for which it was designed. Approval of the diesels came earlier this month when a state agency ruled that while poisonous exhaust from MATEP's stack could give four people lung cancer over the 40-year operating life of the plant, that risk is not unreasonable...
...ever achieved without enthusiasm," Emerson wrote. But Americans sometimes consider matters of mood to be unmanly, or fraudulent, or self-deceptive. "It's almost like the old ghost dances that the Indians used to go through in hopes that they could bring back what they had lost," says Carol Stack, professor of public policy at Duke University. "People today are performing their own version of the ghost dance, only it's not called a ghost dance any more. It's called being patriotic." Americans tend to deny that their own moods matter. Still, it is collective psychology--collec tive mood...
...television maps it showed up as a tide of blue (or red, depending on the network) rolling inexorably south to north, east to west, and as a vaulting column of electoral votes for Reagan towering over a nearly invisible stack for Democratic Challenger Walter Mondale. Partisans on both sides were awestruck. "Embarrassing, just embarrassing," muttered Mondale's campaign manager, Robert Beckel. Democrat Nancy Dick, conceding defeat in her bid for a Senate seat from Colorado, lamented, "My loss is part of a national disaster that our party is suffering." In the Reagan camp, Pollster Richard Wirthlin crowed early...