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...negotiations until you're just plain tired of it," says Bernard Appel, an executive vice president of the Radio Shack division of Tandy Corp., which annually does more than $200 million worth of business with Japan. In Australia, Attorney Paul Davis offers clients a simple rule of thumb: allow five times as long as usual when doing business in Japan...
...cook to every ten guests is a rule of thumb. The restaurant run by perhaps the greatest cook in Kyoto, Moto Nagata, seats ten people, and no tip will get you in; the Japanese rarely accept tips. Such cooking flourishes because few Japanese entertain at home. Phrases like "home cooking" do not translate into Japanese with their overtones intact. They suggest strain and bumbling, not warmth and sincerity...
...ANALYTICAL approach will allow you to understand even the most obscure book, Themes can be grappled, symbolisms found and allusions unravelled. And basically if you really set your mind to it, you will at least be able to focus in on the novel's "meaning." But this rule of thumb does not apply to Gilbert Sorrentini's latest work, Blue Pastoral--thinking is of no use. And only in the grip of a spasm of frustration, as you are preparing to heave this book across the room, will you possibly get an inkling of what has been going...
...applied the precise level of thumb pressure to the temple of one of Kamal's 7-ft. thugs, Bond turned meditative. When he had started playing this game of Save the Planet-when he was roguish Sean Connery and the world was so much younger-Bond had been a kind of role model for people of a certain class and ambition. Savoir-faire meant the aristocracy of style: which wine to decant, which brand of cigarette to smoke, which automatic weapon to carry under the armpit. Now that he was Roger Moore, 20 years later, Bond had degenerated into...
...officer hit Pierce in the shoulder while a soldier pressed a Kalashnikov assault rifle into his back. Another officer struck Foley in the face several times and leveled a 9-mm pistol at his head. The soldiers severely beat the driver, who suffered a broken finger and thumb as well as multiple bruises. Pierce was bound with wire and taken to a Syrian military headquarters in Tripoli...