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Word: yokohama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1992-1992
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...G.O.P. nomination. In place of the Soviet Union and the Ayatullah's Iran, Connally concocted an entirely different American enemy: a small and peaceable island nation called Japan. Connally blustered that unless the Japanese practiced fair trade, "they'd better be prepared to sit on the docks of Yokohama in their Toyotas watching their Sony sets, because they aren't going to ship them here." His reward for being a visionary: Connally won precisely one delegate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Bashing on the Campaign Trail | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...economy must earn a place in a radically altered world (much changed from the triumphant postwar American years when Japan, Europe and Russia were in cinders and Detroit made the only cars worth driving) or else become merely an enormous truck farm and parts factory across the Pacific from Yokohama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Cares, Anyway? | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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