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...Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico. Meant as an incentive to congressional selfdiscipline, the resolution does not go to the White House for approval or veto. The stage is thus set for a bitter, lengthy clash between Capitol Hill and the White House over specific tax and spending bills...
...accusations: that, contrary to White House policy, Enders favored conciliatory negotiations with the guerrillas in El Salvador; that he insisted excessively on the importance of emphasizing economic as well as military aid to El Salvador in President Reagan's April speech to Congress. Above all, there was a clash of personalities, particularly between Enders and Kirkpatrick. Said a top State Department official: "He [Enders] should not have been treated that way. No one here believes that character assassination is a good mechanism for handling personnel disputes...
...wearing appropriate business dress; be sure to tell your employer if you are bringing a gay lover to a formal company occasion. Mazzei offers a couple of pages of suggestions on the issue of a kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting an office affair, Mazzei recommends discretion and closed doors. He suggests that anyone who walks in on two co-workers should beat a hasty retreat and pretend that he saw nothing. Mazzei warns that sex on business trips is particularly hazardous...
...against his chest and go away whimpering. Preternatural varmints from the planet Krypton attempt to bend his will to theirs and end up with splitting headaches. But now, perhaps, the Man of Steel has finally met his match: his own rotten self. See Good battle Evil in a schizophrenic clash that makes for the most entertaining and affecting Superman...
...shift from protest to politics, some venerable black institutions ironically are getting left behind. The N.A.A.C.P., once the pre-eminent champion of racial justice, is rived by internal feuding. The bitter personality clash between Chairman Margaret Bush Wilson and Executive Director Benjamin Hooks took an unexpected twist last week when Wilson bowed to pressure from 2 angry board members and | backed down from her decision to suspend Hooks. Then she, instead, was asked by the board to resign...