The US played the deregulation card as a means to keep the rampant Japanese economy in check, and in the 1990s began serving up advantages and lagniappes to Japan's neighborhood rival, China, strategically setting the two Asian powers against each other.

The last load, as we Yankees say, was a Mammoth: […] producing an aggregate of nearly twelve cords.

The beauteous Love-Eye burning in the Heart; From whence Loves Centres endless multiply, As thick-set Spangles of the Sky, Raising a Sting of Joy in ev’ry Part.

“You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”