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...developer and a longtime Wilson backer. In a tense session with Wilson, Bren and Fuller, Gorton recommended bugging out of Iowa for lack of organization, manpower and money. Instead the campaign should concentrate on New York, he said, where TV ads can achieve far more bang for the buck. Fuller argued vehemently against the idea, but Wilson backed Gorton. Fuller then sidelined himself to Washington as fund-raising supervisor and surrogate public campaigner, leaving Gorton supreme in Sacramento--for about 72 hours. On Friday, in a meeting with Wilson, Fuller argued in effect, "Either Gorton goes or I do." This...
...When people are homeless, it is very hard to deal effectively with other things," says Goldfinger. "Directly answerable to the board is going to be the office manager and the editor... so there will be a structure where the buck stops here...
About 8 a.m. on May 28, the last day for students to move out of their houses, Sinedu Tadesse '96 used a buck knife to stab her sleeping roommate Trang Phuong Ho '96 to death...
...restore the ecological balance. And while it is tempting to draw parallels between the ecological standards of Siberia and those of most of the Third World, there is a tremendous body of environmental expertise and activism among the Russian people. For every profiteer who would make a quick buck off the fire sale of Siberia's assets, there are many who decry the theft of national patrimony. What Russia does not have is time and money, and the paradoxical nature of its plight is that it must sell its resources in order to stabilize its economy and thus create...
...command." Still, the animals' ability to hit their marks never failed to amaze Noonan. His set, he says, "worked musically, rather than chaotically." Adds producer Miller: "We never once got jaded. As in all good allegories, you get a lot of bang for your buck." Now, it seems, he and his colleagues are going to be rewarded with a lot of bucks because they refused to bang audiences over the head with their effects, their moral or their own cleverness. It may have been complex to make, but their fable shines with the classic virtues of the form--surface simplicity...