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Spin doctors in Washington and Tokyo to the contrary, the eleventh-hour deal is more of a truce than a real peace. To be sure, the pact left both sides momentarily ebullient. In Tokyo an official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry reported after the deal was struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar...
...might really happen: the Clinton Administration swears it is dead serious about slapping penalty tariffs on Japanese luxury cars Wednesday. The announcement over the weekend that U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and his Japanese counterpart, Ryutaro Hashimoto, will meet Monday in Geneva may increase the prospects of an eleventh-hour deal to expand sales of U.S. auto parts to Japan and keep the penalties from being put into effect. But even that would not defuse the intensifying confrontation between Washington and Tokyo...
...many got their first choice, but plenty got their tenth or eleventh," he said. "They lived exactly where they didn't want to," In 1977, Fox, who was then dean of the College, implemented an ordered four choice system...
Student's opposition to Dean Jewett's eleventh-hour decision has been conveniently buried in the Reading Period crunch. So what can students do now to object to Jewett's decision to randomize the housing lottery system...
...many got their first choice, but plentygot their tenth or eleventh," he said. "They livedexactly where they didn't want to." In 1977, Fox,who was then dean of the college, implemented anordered four-choice system...