Question: Modern Japan has embraced the consumer society to such an extent that shopping can be a full-time pursuit.
Modern Japan has wholly rejected the consumer soceity.

Answer: no

Question: Doesn't look like the Betsy Ann coming back, either." The something whizzed by again, in the other direction, but lower and slower.
The thing made another pass, this time lower and slower.

Answer: yes

Question: often refer to these initiatives as state planning's companion initiatives, and these initiatives - competition, the quality initiative, the diversity initiative, technology initiative grants, the matters initiative, our efforts to enhance services for self-represented litigants, the Legal Resource Library, to name just a few - have become as important to the creation of a world-class delivery system as state planning has proved itself to be.
There are only five important companion initiatives.

Answer:
it is not possible to tell