31.  The American model is hardly monolithic, and the issue of how to resolve the Asian crisis has become contentious among Americans themselves.

32.  The American model comes with the warnings, but it is designed to dissipate heat more readily.

33.  The American model has proved its superiority.

34.  The current dominance of the American model rests, in historic terms, on a fleeting experience.

35.  The government of France, for example, continues to talk the talk of horror at the brutal American model of capitalism.

36.  The last two chapters turn to American musical models that European composers found especially attractive, Broadway and Hollywood, and then, of course, jazz.

37.  The lure of the nimble American economic model, and the strengths of European multiculturalism.

38.  The new media czars insist that they are simply copying the American model, in which private ownership is a mark of independence and a barrier against government censorship.

39.  The price in the United States and other details of the American model have not been determined, but the challenge here will be greater than in Japan.

40.  The United States, of course, is celebrating any reforms that move the Asian economies closer to the American model of capitalism and further from the Japanese model.