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Years of cajoling and lecturing had done no good. In a society where white- collar workers burn the midnight oil as a matter of routine, tougher action was needed. So henceforward, Nippon Steel will switch off the electricity at its Tokyo headquarters at 10 p.m., forcing the workaholics among its 3,300 employees to suspend work and go home. Those who try to make up for the lost hours on Sunday will find the doors locked...
...Hockey East) had a even tougher time last weekend, dropping a pair of games to the top-ranked Maine Black Bears...
...economies of other Asian nations thrive, citizens are paying more attention to their health and pushing for tougher smoking restrictions. "They're doing a lot of things at once, not small steps over 30 years as in the West," says Dr. Judith Mackay, the region's leading antismoking crusader. Even China, the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco, now restricts smoking in public places and bans advertising...
Clinton has not been just a yes-man to Republican-style realpolitik, and the few foreign policy changes he has advocated could still spell large consequences: a tougher line toward China, for instance, and more tender treatment of Israel in the Middle East negotiations. Among all foreigners, in fact, the Chinese and Arabs appear to be the most nervous at the prospect of a President Clinton, who has accused Bush of "coddling tyrants from Baghdad to Beijing...
Perot was, and became again, a tougher problem. The Governor rejected any idea of adopting a more traditionally liberal program in hopes of holding enough of the Democrats' core constituency -- perhaps 35% of the vote -- to eke out victory in a three-man race. Clinton insisted on sticking with his broadly based centrist program and was quickly -- though temporarily -- rewarded. Not only did Perot quit the race, as some in the Clinton camp had rather wistfully predicted; he did it on July 16, only hours before Clinton delivered his acceptance speech to the Democratic Convention. For good measure, the mercurial...