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- BUSINESS, Page 52Business NotesDIPLOMACYPretty Cute For a Crowbar
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- The New York Times Magazine once described U.S. Trade
- Representative Carla Hills as a "persistent, fiercely
- competitive, sometimes thin-skinned workaholic." Tough words
- for a tough woman. Yet as a leading Japanese politician would
- have it, Hills is more cute than competitive. Koko Sato, deputy
- secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, sat
- next to Hills for more than two hours during a dinner party at
- the recent Houston economic summit. Sato, 62, told friends he
- found Hills, 56, "easy to deal with if you lull her with the
- Oriental way of life and philosophy." He later described Hills
- to reporters as "charming and cute, just getting on a bit in
- age." Sato also noted that when he praised her husband, Hills
- was all smiles. "She is quite feminine," he said.
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- Hills refused to comment on Sato's remarks, but her staff
- noted that she is known as the Velvet Crowbar.
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