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When auto-carrying freighters from Japan finish unloading their cargo in U.S. ports, they typically steam back across the Pacific with empty holds or perhaps a load of live beef cattle. Reason: while Japan exported 2.2 million autos to America last year, the U.S. shipped a mere 4,006 autos in the other direction. That whopping imbalance showed a small sign of easing last week when Honda became the first Japanese automaker to send some of its U.S.-made autos back home for sale. The carmaker marked the occasion on a dock in Portland, Ore., where Republican Senator Bob Packwood...
...with the public, addressing the festival audience with the easy urbanity of a BBC talk-show host. At an open rehearsal, he gave the downbeat for the combative fugue that opens Romeo, then stopped after a few minutes to quip, "It's like riding the foot-plate of a steam - locomotive...
...Columbia. At a campaign staff meeting, Atwater tells the eight others present, "First and foremost, things went great in Vermont yesterday. This will give us a good head of steam . . . What's today?" Campaign Aide Warren Tompkins: "Jeb Bush at 3:30 at the Veterans Memorial. The Governor will be in Greenville attacking Dole's textile votes." Atwater: "I'd do it in Spartanburg." Press Aide Barbara Pardue suggests that since Pat Robertson was endorsed the previous day by Cowboy Roy Rogers, the Bush campaign should seek a rival endorsement from the Lone Ranger. Laughter...
Worried about a financial collapse, depositors rushed to withdraw cash from Panamanian banks, and the Panama National Bank declared that it could not help meet the demands placed on these institutions. All banks in the country were shut down by Friday. An anti-Noriega general strike gradually picked up steam before being called off by its leaders, who were worried that an economic panic might produce widespread violence...
Only the little things nag at me. The person on my floor freshman year that took six showers a day, for instance. I didn't see a need to berate him about his actions at the time, even though the constant steam was causing ceiling tiles to fall and toilet paper to become water-logged. I was able to understand that he somehow always needed...