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Margaret hopes gloves are coming back into fashion. "I've about run out of my stockpile," she says. Now 64, a widow since 1978, Margaret always wears a long dress because "I just feel more elegant, to be blunt about it." She is horrified by the idea of a tip jar ("It would seem like soliciting") and is hurt only "if someone requests a classic, like a Rachmaninoff concerto, something that takes a lot of your soul and concentration, arid then talks throughout. That breaks my heart...
...Casey. Both have their own ties to Reagan. When Deaver once tried to talk Weinberger into going along with the President on budget cuts, the canny Defense chief knew just how to handle the pressure. Have the President tell me himself, Weinberger countered, sure that Reagan would avoid any blunt confrontation. Deaver dropped...
...been foundering for some time. The blunt, bureaucratic notice of bankruptcy placed responsibility on officials directing the firm. Said the report: "The company could not adjust to the new conditions as its organization and management were not of the required quality." IGV's plants will now be sold or reorganized and absorbed by other companies. Most of the 1,300 workers need not worry about unemployment. According to the Ministry of Industry, they will be offered new jobs...
...obvious tactic has been for each party to try to blunt any issue on which the other seems to hold an advantage. The Republicans, for example, know that most elderly people tend to have more confidence in the Democrats as protectors of their Social Security and other retirement benefits. Thus President Reagan announced at his July 24 press conference that he would ask Congress to pass legislation granting a cost of living adjustment (COLA) next year to Social Security beneficiaries even if inflation falls below 3%, which now seems possible. He did so although the bipartisan compromise package passed...
...qualities have helped Gregorian prevail over what once seemed a nearly hopeless financial morass. When he arrived, the library was balancing its budget not only by cutting back services but by eating into its $80 million endowment. Then Gregorian began stating his case to potential givers. It was both blunt and plain: the library is necessary and therefore it should be supported. "I have never relied on the guilt or vanity of donors," explains Gregorian. "Charity you give out of pity. Philanthropy is for a higher cause...