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...Britain, it's the government that negotiates almost every labor contract, not private industry, so Thatcher has a lot more direct clout than the American president. She knows she has the public's tacit approval to hold the line. But unemployment's at 14 percent and rising, and the persistent work stoppages and management-labor animosity that the prime minister has done nothing to discourage are contributing to the slump. In such a situation. Thatcher can't afford to seek an unconditional surrender, only an evenly negotiated truce...
...seemed likely to join him. While the bill seemed safe in the Republican-controlled Senate, Reagan's friend, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, observed, "This is the most difficult legislative challenge this President has had to face. It's tight as hell." Still, Reagan's clout and the obvious need for new federal revenue may prove decisive. Reagan had one advantage in the struggle: many of the dissidents in his party came from the South and West, where he remains extremely popular with voters. With Reagan's prestige on the line, Representatives from those areas might hesitate...
...presided over a two-hour discussion. Letter writing and rank-and-file pressure on Congress, the group decided, would be the principal tactics. The rich (1982 receipts: $4 million) National Conservative Political Action Committee will send letters to every Congressman, reminding each of the organization's campaign-funding clout. Viguerie will use the mail to deputize as lobbyists 4,500 conservatives outside Washington. The group agreed, however, to walk that fine, perhaps imaginary line between disagreement with and disloyalty to the President. Insists Supply-Side Apostle Roberts: "There were more Reaganites in that room than there...
Busch's advertising clout has paid off. The company has been the No. 1 brewery for 25 years. Over the past decade, sales have soared 124%, from 24.3 million bbl. of beer in 1971 to 54.5 million bbl. last year. The firm's Budweiser brand is the largest-selling premium-priced beer in the U.S., with a typical retail price of $2.40 a sixpack, while Michelob, the company's "superpremium" offering, at about $2.90 a sixpack, leads that market segment as well...
...chamber. He often explained his wise cracking ways by saying, "A Republican has to have a sense of humor because there bite, so few of us." And where Dole's sallies often carried a partisan bite, his Democratic foes could laugh along because he carried no clout. But now Dole heads the Finance Committee, his party controls the Senate and even Dole takes himself more seriously. He quickly learned that "you don't get anything done by beating your colleagues over the head." His tongue has lost some of its tartness...