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<text id=90TT2264>
<title>
Aug. 27, 1990: Business Notes:Economists
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 27, 1990 Talk Of War
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 49
Business Notes
ECONOMISTS
No Bashing On Premises
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<p> His employer was delighted when Pat Choate, Washington's
premier idea packager, propagated such 1980s political buzz
words as "America's decaying infrastructure." But then Choate,
TRW's vice president for policy analysis, began an explosive
book documenting the network through which Japan and its paid
American agents sway U.S. trade policy and public opinion. That
was too controversial for TRW, which sells products ranging
from seat belts to communication chips and does $400 million
in business with Japan. Last week TRW showed Choate the door,
apparently for Japan bashing.
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<p> In a chirpy press release that made no mention of his
upcoming book, Agents of Influence, TRW announced that Choate
had resigned to work on his writing. But this was a cover
story, insist Choate's friends, who say TRW chairman Joseph
Gorman told Choate the company could not resist Japanese
pressure to disown the book and its author. Neither Gorman nor
Choate was talking, but TRW spokesman Michael Johnson said
dryly, "I don't think Pat's leaving should be surprising." Not
surprising at all, if you accept Choate's thesis about Japan's
influence.
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