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...pressure, we'll have to blitz and play man-to-man," he said. "That's our strength...
...preparation for the blitz, Harvard officials cancelled classes and shut down all offices for only the third time in this century. Facilities Maintenance kept a full staff of 200 workers, University Police doubled its force, calling in 15 overtime policemen, and the dining halls stayed open. The rest of Harvard's 20,000 employees and its 15,000 students...
Gorbachev continued his propaganda blitz with some carrot-and-stick diplomacy. He dangled the carrot in front of eight American Senators, led by West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who called on him in the Kremlin. Gorbachev, said Byrd, promised that if the U.S. "would agree to prohibit the militarization of space," in other words call a halt to Star Wars, Moscow would "put on the negotiating table . . . the very next day" a set of the "most radical proposals" to reduce offensive nuclear weapons...
After all, who would be stupid enough to put out a sweeter Coke after just finishing an ad campaign that said Coke was less sweet than Pepsi? And who would be stupid enough to change Coke one year before its 100th anniversary, thereby passing up an unprecedented advertising blitz for Coke's centennial? And who would be dumb enough to switch to a formula that only six out of 10 preferred to an American tradition...
...present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...