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Accepting defeat, Johnson issued a concession. Said he: "I am proud of the fact that we put the best bid on the table the first time and this time." He then returned with an attorney to RJR's 48th-floor New York offices in seemingly good spirits. As city lights...
Now McNamara has come under fire. He has admitted that he knew what pot smells like because he smoked it as recently as 1984 -- a concession that, made earlier, could have denied him his appointment. Though there are still three years remaining in McNamara's four-year term, he may...
Shamir will probably accede to a right-wing coalition whose policies reflect more extreme views than those presented by the last government. Israelis can expect a tough line on the occupied territories. Driven by a vision of a Greater Israel, Shamir has vowed never to relinquish an inch of Biblical...
Despite earning $1.2 million last year in salary and stock options, Stempel remains at heart a grease monkey who reads car-buff magazines, counts race-car driver A.J. Foyt among his friends and won a collection of drag-racing trophies in his youth. His one concession to corporate security: letting...
Malone seemed to be the heir apparent of the Massachusetts Republicans, saying in interviews and in his concession speech that he would "take a hard look at the governor's seat in '90." And onlookers were even more optimistic, saying Malone would knock the defeated Dukakis out of the State...