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Negotiations continued until 8:30, as, according to U.S. bargainers, the Japanese started "backsliding" on some concessions. Clinton was so worried about how the Japanese would present the pact that he insisted on seeing a text of Miyazawa's prepared remarks before joining in a press conference to break the news. He got a text -- in Japanese; with no time to prepare a written translation, interpreter Jim Zumwalt had to read one aloud...
...nation's leading producer of electronic cash registers and the world's largest manufacturer of automated teller machines for banks. The company is the third biggest issuer of credit cards, behind only American Express and Citibank. It has also expanded into the field of multimedia (machines that can combine text, graphics, sound and video) by buying pieces of EO, interactive computer maker 3DO Co. and software start-up General Magic. Earlier this month, the phone giant entered the video-game business through a joint venture with Sega Enterprises that will enable players to take on opponents over...
There are guides to the nuts and bolts of making movies, but until now there has been no instructional text for top people in Hollywood -- that is, those dozen or so executives whose job it is to hand out several billion dollars of other people's money (especially Japanese people's money) to extremely good- looking, talented and/or lucky Southern Californians...
...racial and gender grievances. He repeats the claim by two of Hill's former students that she returned papers to them in which they found her pubic hair sprinkled among the pages. The story is useful for demonizing Hill and fun for Brock to tell in his main text. Perhaps too much fun. Only in a footnote buried in the back does he acknowledge that the whole tale may have been a racist joke about the only black woman on the faculty...
...issue has been debated recently in the Swedish, Danish, Swiss, British, Thai and Cypriot parliaments. Germany last year stiffened antitrafficking laws, and Belgium is set to do likewise. France has cracked down on the use of its Minitel -- a widely distributed video-text telephone service -- for child- | prostitution ads. But police face a daunting task in stemming the sex trade. Many of the foreign-women victims, unable to speak the language of the country, are loath to file complaints for fear of being injured by pimps or deported by authorities. And faced with the difficulty of sorting out which women...