Word: sparkplug
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...that the roots of the nation's problems lie within the 50 states. Still, in the sound-bite derby for the White House, Japan's affluence and economic nationalism make tempting targets. Japan owes its current prominence to, along with the recession, the President's sorrowful swoon at the Sparkplug Summit in Tokyo. Never before has the nation's Globe-Trotter in Chief seemed so woefully ill prepared on foreign soil. Bush was unable to articulate a coherent rationale, other than pity, for why Japan should liberalize its economic system to reduce its trade surplus with the U.S. With...