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...easy task. It requires practice, effort and, like most things in Japan, plenty of organization. At Mazda Motors, employees last spring were busy working out - their holiday plans. In an effort to get them to take time off, Mazda holds an annual "Dream Vacation Contest." Participants describe their ideal getaway, and the winners have their dreams come true at company expense. Last year's winner was Ryuzo Yamaguchi, a training manager, who wanted to enter an international ballroom-dance contest in Britain. With a $3,500 subsidy from Mazda, Yamaguchi and his wife waltzed and tangoed at London's Royal...
...last possibility seems to be the one preferred by many officials in the Bush Administration, although wait-and-see is the only currently announced policy. "An ideal Soviet Union," says one of the Administration's Soviet experts, "would be a European version of the Organization of African Unity -- that's the best they can do." Helms predicts "a very disorderly world" just ahead, but he would like to see an "arrangement where the basic elements of the Soviet empire remained in some confederation." Others think such weighty analysis is premature. Says an exultant Burton Pines, senior vice president...
...problem with the Soviet Union is that each of its many incompatible parts may be slighted by a name that failed to take specific national identities into account. The solution reached by Pakistan (an initial from each of its eight component regions) would be ideal -- except for the fact that there are 12 republics to deal with. The acronyms are hardly euphonious or politic. Turgutmakbak, for example, simply turns the new confederation into gobbledygook. Using syllables from some of the republics would be just as untenable. For example, the Belokazakirghuzbek Russukra Union (B.R.U.) would leave out the easily offended states...
...last week Lewis proved he could still be the fastest human alive, when he set a new world record of 9.86 sec. to take the 100-m gold medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo. And even though the muggy, sea-level Japanese capital was hardly ideal for breaking the long-jump record, Lewis was going to try. In an astonishing series, he turned in the greatest sequence of long jumps ever recorded. No one had ever soared so far and so consistently over six tries, all well past 28 ft., brushing against the record...
...acknowledges that shifting it back by a day is less than an ideal solution, since holding it on a Sunday creates a problem for some Christian students...