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...years ago, Yasuharu Kondo was overwhelmed with customers at his Toyota showroom in Tokyo. Sales were booming, and most shoppers looking for top-of- the-line models, the best their yen could buy. Those days are gone; today Kondo surveys a showroom full of sparkling new cars -- and not a customer in sight. "In my 30 years as a salesman," he says, "I have never seen it as bad as this...
...favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" Even with four years of hindsight, that hypothetical query still chills with its smarmy invasiveness and macabre posturing. Politically, of course, Dukakis' unemotional, uninflected, unyielding answer ("No, I don't, Bernard") was in effect his concession speech. But nothing, save the yen for televised blood sports, justified the original question; capital punishment is an issue of only tangential relevance to the duties of any President...
...cheap currency is likewise a mixed blessing for foreign countries. For Japanese and European manufacturers, a weak dollar hurts sales of goods like cameras and cars because it raises their prices in the U.S. But foreign tourists in the U.S. can suddenly buy a lot more with their marks, yen or francs...
...likely join freestyle and medley relays. She could come close to the tally of her heroine, Kristin Otto of East Germany, whose six gold medals at Seoul are a record for a woman in any sport. Thompson's awe at that feat is tinged with healthy skepticism and a yen for battle. "To take over from the East Germans would be the ultimate revenge," she says. "To do, without drugs, what they did with drugs would be an unreal accomplishment...
...first time since World War II to participate in carefully circumscribed U.N. peacekeeping operations. The move follows Japan's tentative step of sending minesweeping forces to the gulf after the war, and is a victory for the government. Stung by Western criticism of Tokyo's painless pay-your-way yen diplomacy, the government has sought to fashion a global political role for Japan that matches its economic muscle...