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  1.                                                                                 GRAPEVINE, Page 23
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  4. By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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  7.     NICKNAME OF THE WEEK: TOSHIKI KAIFU
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  9.     Journalists in Japan have taken to calling their Prime
  10. Minister "Bush-Phone," a term that sounds more derisive in
  11. Japanese than it does in translation. The nickname implies that
  12. Kaifu cannot make a decision without having President Bush on
  13. the line. Uh-oh. What about "Kaifu-Phone?"
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