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Japanese money is invested everywhere, from Tokyo skyscrapers to RJR Nabisco junk bonds to shares in Britain's newly privatized water companies. The scope of the Japanese surge abroad has been breathtaking. In 1984 Japanese banks held a little more than 20% of international banking assets, meaning the sum of all outstanding loans. Today the share is almost 40%. "There is hardly a major deal put together anywhere in the world that does not include Japanese banks," says J. Brain Waterhouse, a British securities analyst in Hong Kong. "It used to be that 1 out of 4 banks involved...
...sum, Bush is basically a decent man whose decency, unfortunately, is about an eighth of an inch thick; a man whose personal decency masks, rather than enhances, his public role; a good person, if there's no reason not to be, but a sucker for a Faustian bargain. He can be had cheap -- political convenience will certainly suffice. And that's not nice...
...that the incongruous fact that the corporate logos generously splashed all over the screen have already parlayed themselves into commercial advertisements and promotional gimmicks in the real world, and you have the sum and substance of Days of Thunder...
...fellows want to dream up worlds that can exist only in the cinema. Call their pictures dyna-movies, for they are dynamic rather than dramatic. They trade in sensation, in the jolts a moviegoer gets at seeing a villain's body blow up real good. Their impact is the sum of their special effects. And their tone is high facetiousness; the whole construct is an elaborate joke...
When a publicity-hungry guerrilla gang kidnaped miner Scott Royden Heimdal near the Colombia-Ecuador border last April and demanded a $1.5 million ransom, his family in Peoria, Ill., despaired: the sum was utterly beyond its reach. Then Marge and Roy Heimdal heard that the kidnapers had cut the ransom to $60,000, and issued an appeal for help. Over the next four days, all Peoria joined in a frantic campaign to raise the cash. Children sold lemonade; retirees held bake sales...