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...Yankelovich Clancy Shulman showed that only 34% of registered voters consider Dukakis an "exciting" candidate (vs. 66% for Jackson). Rather, the party has grown weary of a nominating contest that combined the worst elements of burlesque and trench warfare. Now at last the stable, competent craftsman can begin to build a campaign against George Bush...
...power will be critical. On the personal level, their dealings have advanced from politely cool to vaguely friendly. Jackson customarily greets his adversary with a breezy "Hey, Duke." Dukakis, after some prodding, has recently taken to placing small-talk phone calls to Jackson. "We're going to continue to build what I hope will be a good relationship," Dukakis said. "We are united in the feeling that the stakes are very high in this election. We both want a new kind of leadership in the White House...
Several industrial agreements have been signed since November. In the first of these ventures, Connecticut-based Combustion Engineering will provide machinery and software for managing petroleum production at refineries. Minnesota's Honeywell will equip Soviet fertilizer plants with high-tech manufacturing equipment. Occidental Petroleum will build two factories to supply plastics for food packaging, vinyl floors and other uses. Chevron is * discussing an oil-exploration venture, while Monsanto is negotiating joint production of a weed-killing herbicide...
Some American companies have found ways around the currency problem. PepsiCo, which plans to build two Pizza Hut shops in Moscow later this year, will accept rubles at one outlet and collect foreign currencies at another one, in a tourist neighborhood. Occidental, on the other hand, will export 25% of the plastics produced in its Soviet factories for sale in Western Europe and other markets...
...CFM56 has no real rival, because Pratt & Whitney scuttled its plans to build a similar model. The engine builder, a division of Connecticut's United Technologies, cut development plans in the 1970s under the parent company's acquisitive chairman, Harry Gray. "Instead of building this engine, Gray * bought Otis Elevator. It was a monstrous mistake," says Wolfgang Demisch, who follows the industry for the Union Bank of Switzerland. The company later suffered "a market-share erosion as severe as any I can bring to mind," said Demisch...