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...lose to the lowly Orioles, 11-3 behind ace Roger ("laughing all the way to the bank") Clemens...
Darman the farsighted analyst has known for eight years about the urgent need for expensive repairs to the country's economic foundations. Darman the ace operative has sometimes papered over that need to serve his President's or his candidate's political purposes. He is widely suspected of secretly itching to impose a tax increase. After denying that vehemently -- though not altogether persuasively -- he produced an innovative budget plan that appears to reduce the deficit with negligible pain...
...Baker succeeds -- if, with American primacy intact, he can manage the transition to a new era -- he may be ready for the next step. "He's got the ace of diamonds of jobs now," says Preston Moore, a Baker cousin and close friend. "The ace of spades is still out there to get. One thing's for certain: Jimmy Baker won't voluntarily go back to drafting wills if he's still got his wits about...
...Motown Productions these days. Founder and Chairman Berry Gordy, who sold his legendary record label to MCA last June for $61 million, is now plunging his company into the equally high-risk field of movies and television. In doing so, Gordy, 59, is banking on the talents of his ace protege, Suzanne de Passe, 42, the president of Motown Productions and one of the most promising new mini-moguls in Hollywood...
...Schlesinger -- before Orion suggested Alan Parker, 44. His films (Midnight Express, Fame, Birdy) resist classification by content, but in style they are as easy to spot as a fist in your face. Bang on! That is both Parker's strength and limitation, which has the dervish precision of the ace London commercials director he once was. But he had never made a film with such daunting logistics as this...