Japan was exceptionally quick and deceptively strong. Their smaller defenders somehow managed to move the bigger U.S. forwards off the ball or off the...r line. The U.S. scored on a free kick at the 30-minute mark and that score held up until halftime.The second half was more of the same. The Japanese players displayed a little more urgency as the game wore on and tied the game at one midway through the second half. J.C. groaned as one of the Japanese forwards out-leaped a U.S. defender following. It had been submitted by 'His Laboring Few' and reviewed by a local house designer. They agreed that after the prorating, each of the houses would have about $75,000 of my money invested. With me spreading it out to ten at a time, that was a bunch of money for a small town girl to comprehend."So tell me kid, what happened to finally make you move forward?" I asked."We have a firm offer on the mill building now," he said. "You knew that we always wanted to unload it all at once. We can do that. "Last summer didn't help one damn bit, either, watching all those trips go out and wishing I was on every one of them." Well, we can stretch it out some, I guess," Crystal observed. "I mean, we never made up our minds if we were going to head back to Buddha and Giselle's and surf some more. That'd eat up a few days." Might as well," Michelle agreed. "We're probably not going to get the chance again, unless we head back early and decide to fly to Hawaii." Sounds like a hell of an idea," Scooter. The place had changed from within and from all indications there had been little resistance to those changes because they carried with them the soothing signals of modernization that was so desperately need in an evolving world.The motorcars on the streets were familiar to me because they were exactly the same as the exported cars that dominated the streets of most western cities. The industrial base of the country had adapted swiftly to the changing world order and they had assumed leadership.