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...Harding has, perhaps, the longest experience in dealing with Japan's military of any operational commander outside Japan's shores. As deputy chief of logistics in the U.N. peacekeeping force in Cambodia (UNTAC), Harding met Japanese top brass in June 1992 at U.N. headquarters in Phnom Penh. The officers were planning one of Japan's first military detachments overseas since the conclusion of World War II. "They asked me a million questions all morning," he says. Four months later, a Japanese engineering unit of 600 men arrived with top-of-the-line equipment for road building in Cambodia. Harding describes...
...country store," he says. "Something comes up about the Civil War, and he says, 'When is the South going to get over that?' The guy tells him, 'When it's over.' So the Yank says, 'What would you call what happened at Appomattox Court House? And the Southerner says, 'Longest cease-fire in history...
...natural business cycle followed roughly the same pattern: three to four years of solid growth followed by a one-year recession. Amazingly, the current economy had been chugging along for 10 years with little evidence of tiring. In March 2000 the expansion officially earned the distinction as the longest in U.S. history. That in itself should have kept us on alert...
Each of these events had its own subtle impact on the economy. But combined, they may have brought an end to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. Now, however, a larger question looms. Are there any telltale signs suggesting the economy may soon start to turn up again...
That same year Waddle married Jill Huntington, whom he had met at a cosmetics counter in Silverdale, Wash. She provided the unquestioning devotion he had been seeking all his life. "She loves me unconditionally, although for the longest time I didn't appreciate that," says Waddle. "This tragedy has done one good thing--it has strengthened our bonds, when in other marriages it could have weakened them." They have one daughter, Ashley...