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Woolsey made other improvements as well. He forced CIA analysts to write crisper intelligence reports for the White House. He oversaw plans for cutting almost 25% of the CIA's work force of more than 20,000 by the end of the decade, ahead of the schedule the Administration set for the reductions. "Jim Woolsey was a sincere and decent man who had an impossible task," says Angelo Codevilla, an intelligence expert with the Hoover Institution. "He was a much better director than the CIA was an agency...
...increasingly difficult to operate smaller, older conventional stores when there are other...fresher, crisper stores around," said F. Terry Vandewater, manager of public relations at the Stop and Shop Supermarket Company in Quincy, Mass. "And it was not feasible to improve this...
Wisely -- and boldly -- the telephone company decided to scrap the whole system and start over. Investing $80 billion between 1975 and 1990, France . Telecom now claims the world's most digitized switching system, meaning that 75% of the lines use digitally transmitted signals for crisper connections. A telephone can be installed in a matter of days, dialing is swift, lines are clear. Public telephones are everywhere...
...vegetable noodles, however, were an overwhelming hit. The noodles were a bit thinner and crisper than standard Lo Mein fare, but the difference was appealing. Generous portions of scallions and mushrooms and lightly fried chicken rounded out the meal, and complemented the Molson well...
...Hart his due: it was a great piece of political theater. Rocky, Richard Nixon, Douglas MacArthur, the metaphors of return are all part of the common heritage. So, too, are the religious themes of exile and resurrection. Hart's bumper-sticker rendition of his platform was far sharper and crisper than the rhetoric of his Democratic rivals, but what was most distinctive was the way Hart played the populist poetry of his political predicament. "This will not be like any campaign you've ever seen," Hart promised, "because I am going directly to the people. I don't have...