After rising early to walk my daughter's basset hound puppy, I collapsed with my breakfast toast to watch a TV business program, Bloomberg News. One story concerned a Japanese bank acquiring over 100 English pubs mostly in the Midlands. The story mentioned that this acquisition followed that of another Japanese bank which became the biggest single English pub-owner by purchasing over 300 pubs from Grand Metropolitan and Fosters. Globalization! David Fahey (Miami University)