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...trade gap. The two leaders agreed that reducing the trade imbalance was a "top priority," but took only a few modest steps in that direction. Takeshita made new proposals to give American construction companies greater access to Japanese public works projects. He also promised that his government would strive to hold down interest rates, which could help stimulate Japan's economy and boost demand for imports from the U.S. Both men said that the dollar's three-year fall against the yen had gone far enough...
...passionate beliefs. They just happen to believe exactly opposite things, as two emotional speeches demonstrated anew last week. "I make a solemn vow," Reagan promised at an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Washington. "As long as there is breath in this body, I will speak and work, strive and struggle for the cause of the Nicaraguan freedom fighters." Specifically, Reagan pledged, he will fight for $270 million in renewed military and humanitarian aid to the contras to enable them to continue battling the Sandinista regime. The next day, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly...
Even strategists who doubt Caddell's formulation that a political party, like a French noun, can connote gender, concede that the Democrats must strive to convey toughness if they are to attract the defectors and younger men who contributed heavily to both Reagan landslides. Pollster Stanley Greenberg, after studying switch voters, points out, "Younger voters, even more than others, respond strongly to candidates who seem determined to pursue clear goals -- regardless of what those goals are." It worked for Reagan and for Oliver North...
...there are few apparent congressional qualms about the further expansion of minority set-asides. A Defense authorization act, which took effect this month, calls upon the Pentagon to strive toward awarding 5% of all contracts, as much as $7 billion a year, to minority-owned small businesses. A laudable goal but also, alas, another tempting target for corruption...
...quality of the video memoirs varies. Some have a home-movie amateurishness, with ill-lit camerawork, tinny musical interludes from the school band and interminable shots of students horsing around for the camera. Others strive for more professionalism, with rock songs on the sound track and TV news-style interviews. This year's video for Eastwood High School in Pemberville, Ohio, opens with an old woman rummaging through a trunk in her dusty attic. Inside she finds a forgotten videocassette, which she pops into a VCR. The tape, of course, turns out to be Eastwood High's 1986-87 video...