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Finally, Habib has a distinctive personal touch that helped move the talks along. Dealing with the loquacious Menachem Begin, Habib would let him run on a while, then interrupt him with a blunt deflator: "Prime Minister, what you're really saying is this . . ." Habib had a different style from Henry Kissinger, whom he assisted during the Middle East shuttles in 1974 that led to the disengagement agreements made by Israel with both Egypt and Syria. "Kissinger," says one Israeli official, "was more of a preacher. He'd lecture us. Habib takes pains to avoid that...
...Jesse Jackson, the founder of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) visited St. Louis early this month, he pointedly congratulated 7-Up for its commitment to black-run enterprises over the next five years. Then he met with a group of black businessmen and made a rather blunt proposition: to finance a drive designed to encourage the Anheuser-Busch brewery to give more contracts to minority firms, they should each donate $500 to Operation PUSH. Said Jackson: "We're all family here, but you have to pay to play...
...success in the industry is savvy marketing. Though beer drinkers like to boast of the distinctive flavor of their chosen brands, the truth is, as Donald Rice, an analyst with the investment firm of Blunt Ellis & Loewi points out, the products really do not differ from one another all that much in taste or ingredients. Most breweries focus mainly on the same group of customers, that 20% of American beer drinkers who consume eight out of every ten cans sold. These prime customers are both white-and blue-collar workingmen between the ages of 21 and 40, many of whom...
Square, a Wall Street favorite, was blunt. Said he: "They signed the bill in the early hours of the morning, and they were probably asleep. This is really going to hurt a lot of people...
...border. Once again the fighting involved tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, and in scope and intensity resembled the desert battles of World War II. The Iraqi forces of President Saddam Hussein fought tenaciously to hold their positions, and at week's end had managed to blunt the Iranian attack...