Word: vans
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Japanese negotiators can also confuse outsiders by lapsing into silence to mull a point. Western businessmen may then jump into that pool of silence, sometimes to their regret. Howard Van Zandt, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas who spent 17 years as ITT's top manager in Japan, recalls how the head of a Japanese firm did nothing when a contract was presented for his signature. Van Zandt's ITT boss then hastily sweetened the deal by $250,000. Says Van Zandt: "If he had waited a few more minutes, he would have saved...
Japanese Michelangelo or Van Gogh (or perhaps one should say that the Japanese Van Gogh is Van Gogh). The very idea of the avantgarde, that ruling myth in terms of which a century of artists from Manet to Joseph Beuys is conventionally discussed, is purely Western and has never had more than a surface appeal to the Japanese. The idea of cultural norms based on confrontation and "radical" displays of ego strikes them as embarrassing. The scheme whose parody is now being played to exhaustion among the graffitists and plate breakers of Soho-culture as a series of self-conscious...
...hostility to Reagan prompted San Antonio City Councilman Van Archer to complain: "There's just no way in the world I can understand how 200 women who don't shave their legs can claim to speak for the women of America." His remark suggested a poor eye for legs as well as for polls. The women of America, in every social, economic and racial group and in every geographic region, have consistently given President Reagan a poorer performance rating than have men. A New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that among Republicans the discrepancy between...
Reported by David Beckwith/Washington and Bruce van Voorst/New York
...time for women to relax. Says Van de Kamp: "In all the ads we emphasize that special moment of time that women want for themselves." Read the ads: "Go ahead. You deserve this Satin moment." The brand holds about .8% of the market...