There three relatively equal contenders – japan, the european community with the most powerful country, germany, and the united states. though all of them at about the same economic level, each country now to develop exactly the same industries. they that their citizens the highest standards of living in the 21st century. so these countries to compete with each other. the competition the following questions: -who best products? -who standards of living most rapidly? -who best-educated and best-skilled workforce in the world? —who the world's leader in investment plant and equipment, research and development, infrastructure? — whose institutions — government, education, business world leaders in efficiency? together, america, japan, and germany enough to be the locomotive to pull the rest of the world into prosperity. if they , they that prosperity. to revolve to reach to make to be to hope to have to act to be to be to try to expand to start to want to have to be