Word: cores
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Nonetheless, recent White House departures of longtime conservative Reagan advisers and the far right's growing feeling that the President's foreign policy is not aggressive enough have led the hard core to increase its attacks. "George Bush was the Trojan horse who opened this Administration up to non-Reaganites," charges John Lofton Jr., editor of Conservative Digest. Bush is blamed for bringing in James A. Baker, his former campaign manager, to be Reagan's chief of staff. Baker then supposedly appointed other "Bush-whackers," who have turned the Reagan Administration soft...
...Teamsters to the United Auto Workers, to scale back their wage demands. Said Greenspan: "We're looking at a very significant slowing in the inflation rate. There has been a fundamental change in the wage structure of American industry." Eckstein points to a drop in the so-called core inflation rate. This measures the rise in costs of production due to wages and spending for capital equipment. Unlike the consumer price index, it excludes temporary fluctuations in food, energy and housing costs. He forecasts that the core inflation rate will dip from a peak...
...class film makers. These and other directors who restored German film to artistic prominence after 40 years in the Nazi and postwar wilderness are winning dates in U.S. art theaters traditionally receptive only to French movies. Since October, Frank Ripploh's Taxi zum Klo, a sweet-souled, hard-core slice of homosexual life made for $50,000, has tallied $500,000 in only four U.S. cities...
...this year's course catalogue are easily overlooked. With thousands of classes to choose from, most Harvard undergraduates will have plotted]. their schedules long before they turn to page 15. But a few students--and a few Harvard faculty members and administrators--believe that these pages should be the core of an undergraduate program. Listing a group of courses called from regular departmental offerings by the Committee on Women's Studies, they center on, or are at least "relevant to" an interest in the history, literature and sociology of women...
Make that soft core. "We know we have a special marketplace," says Playboy Productions President Russell Barry. "It's not a marketplace for porn or for Disney. It's for people who would like a sophisticated, adult, sometimes sexy service." Jerry Maglio, president of Escapade's parent company, agrees. "Playboy has worked very hard at developing its image and standing for quality," he says. "That image, over 27 years, has been established in a very positive way." It also has had a salutary effect on Escapade. Before the Playboy partnership, Escapade was available on some 100 cable...