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...possible that the quarry, the more than 100 million people who ordinarily hover in front of the screen during prime time in this peak viewing month, will swim way from this costly bait? "hat they may be lured instead by Dallas or Magnum, P.I. on CBS, or Hill Street Blues on NBC? That they may (dire thought) turn to cable or flip on a video game? Or just decide to read Jane Austen? Of course it is. The bottom of the rating charts is Uttered with such failed mini-series as King, The French Atlantic Affair, MacArthur and Beggarman Thief...
Companies will dangle annual paychecks averaging about $26,000 before 1983 graduates, according to the Northwestern University Endicott Report, a nationwide survey. That bait will be only about 4.8% above 1982 offers, however, which were 11.8% higher than in 1981. Observes Gretchen Thompson, career planning and placement director at the U.C.L.A. Graduate School of Management: "There is a glut of M.B.A.s on the market. So many no-name schools are turning out M.B.A.s that companies are looking for only the very best students with the best grades from the best schools...
...bill to construct more public housing and subsidize mortgages, and a proposal to plump up public repair and maintenance jobs. But given the President's determination to steer clear of conventional remedies for unemployment, even O'Neill's aides refer to the bills as "veto bait...
...quality of his mind, it is suggested by Kissinger in his latest memoir. Kissinger recalls a day when Brezhnev took him hunting and an enormous wild boar approached: "One could see easily why it had attained such a size. It was not greedy; it set about to investigate the bait. It examined the ground before every step. It looked carefully behind every tree. It advanced in a measured pace. It had clearly survived and thrived by taking no unnecessary chances. All its precautions attracted Brezhnev's attention, however, and he felled it with a single shot." Brezhnev probably understood...
...Where's the harm in flaunting my pesos or flashing my jewelry? It's . . . too oblique a contingency that I might ever be killed doing good deeds. It passes the time. And perhaps some bad man will take the bait, and God never notice that it was entrapment...