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...year devotion and service to the Reagans was factored into the deals. Deaver may never have understood his own special place in the world of power. Few men in history have had such personal and professional trust from a President. If he had it to do again, Deaver would bend over backward to break cleanly with the White House. "I would keep a lower profile," he said...
...WANTED. APPLY WITHIN. Suddenly America is running up against serious labor shortages that are crimping many businesses and forcing corporate headhunters to work overtime. As a result, says Richard Kappus, an analyst at the New York State department of labor, companies are having to "do more, spend more and bend over backward to attract workers." The shortages are most severe in low-paying service jobs and in many positions that require technical skills. The maddening worker deficit has come about in part because of the low birthrate, or "baby bust," of the 1960s and early 1970s, which is causing fewer...
...first the skirmish prompted a bit of anxiety among moneymen, especially when Seger declared that the board was no longer Volcker's "one-man show." Financiers feared that the Reagan appointees might lower the Federal Reserve's guard against inflation and bend too much to the Administration's eagerness to expand the economy. Said Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "Any pretense of the Fed being nonpolitical is now gone...
...ECAC Weakness Theory. The ECAC is the weaker conference in the East and therefore, the committee could bend tradition to ensure that the ECAC got the best possible chance to send one representative to the Final Four. Giving Harvard home ice represents that best chance. Along these same lines, the committee fed the tournament champion, Cornell, to the lions--sent it to Denver--because it felt the Red was doomed in this clash of titans anyway...
...honest, Playboy panders to the lacivious interests of adolescent boys who want to look at the bunny strip, show lots of breast and bend over a chair. Look, you can masturbate in front of the anonymous Miss March and now you can in front of a junior from Harvard. "Miss Harvard could you turn to the left a little more, I can't get enough of a shot of your breasts...