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...loneliness of a long-shot runner involves a constant struggle to retain a sense of humanity. Day after day, town after town, Babbitt trudges on in an electoral blur, answering endless questions and shaking an uncountable number of hands. One recent night in New York City, his wife Hattie arrived and crept / into bed while he was asleep. He awoke before dawn to catch a plane to Pittsburgh. All they shared was a tap on the shoulder."Some mornings," Babbitt concedes, "you wake up and say, 'I can't take another day of this...
...arrived at the White House last March, he brought with him a reputation as the great conciliator. Moderates expected his skills as a consensus builder to work legislative magic, easing Ronald Reagan into the new realities of a Democratic Congress. Conservatives feared that his instincts as a pragmatist would blur the President's ideological vision...
...blur of diplomacy left little doubt that Central America will be a major topic of debate in Congress this fall. Indeed, a struggle is already shaping up in the corridors of Washington over the very survival of the contras, the U.S.-supported guerrillas who are fighting the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. As if to launch the battle, President Reagan last week strongly repeated his support for the foundering contra cause, pledging that "we will not abandon our friends in Central America." Secretary of State George Shultz then went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to plead for $270 million...
...same body, urging a rebuff of Greyhound Lines's request that it be allowed to begin operating ailing Trailways immediately rather than wait for formal approval of a merger between the firms. Justice argued that allowing Greyhound to run Trailways before the ICC has studied the proposed merger would blur the companies' respective identities and make it difficult to restore competition should the merger be turned down. At week's end the ICC gave Greyhound temporary permission to operate Trailways after Justice changed its mind. The reasoning: the firm was nearly bankrupt and could not continue without help...
...serendipity and imperfection, the real world in other words. For a World War II shipyard turned condo development, a star of horizontal stripes is given a trompe l'oeil, waving-flag wrinkle. For a printing company, a triangle is composed of lithographic printer's dots that actually muddle and blur...