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Until recently I was more sympathetic to Explanation 2. But lately I have started to wonder whether the stubborn unwillingness of Japan's economic engine to catch is, as many foreigners seem to think, merely because the jump-start hasn't been big enough or sustained enough.
John Travolta's empty nightclub impersonation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors (1998) had one positive result: It gave him a jump-start on Jan Schlichtmann, the reckless personal injury lawyer at the center of A Civil Action . Travolta's Schlichtmann is much more redolent of Clinton: slick and selfish and corrupt in lots of ways but basically on the side of the angels, too proud and arrogant to change tactics when all is certainly lost.
For example, he may be clinically depressed, in which case medication might jump-start a new and motivated life.
Allen is also building a museum honoring Seattle's favorite prodigal son, guitar god Jimi Hendrix, and donated $25 million to jump-start "The Commons," a plan to replace 30 acres of productive businesses with a huge park in the middle of the city.
Desperate austerity measures failed to jump-start the economy.