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...precision planning, the President has usually been able to march into River City and razzle-dazzle a majority of legislators into joining his parade. Only last month he won funding for 21 new MX missiles from a highly skeptical Congress, largely by convincing lawmakers that their assent was crucial to the U.S. bargaining stance at newly opened arms talks with the Soviet Union. Last week all 76 of the Administration's trombones were blaring in Congress's direction yet again, but this time the notes went sour. The Music Man had to offer major legislative concessions to stand a chance...
...Administration was certainly aware that a standing procedure called the National Command Authority allows the Vice President to assume temporary power in military emergencies. If a President is incapable of making a crucial decision, the NCA automatically devolves responsibility to the Vice President and then to the Secretary of Defense. Bush is also chairman of what was called the Crisis Management Team, which is now known as the Special Situations Group. The Vice President, the White House felt, was therefore already in place to preside over any crisis...
...taste question became crucial to Coke. While developing diet Coke, which appeared in 1982, the company came up with a new and sweeter formula. To test just how well a cola containing it would go over, Coke embarked on the most exhaustive and far-reaching research program in its history. In all, nearly 200,000 consumers were asked to participate over a three-year period...
...group of terrorists to create a connection by asserting it," he laid the grounds for Reagan to claim he had not rewarded terrorism when the swap later came off. If this course was politically advantageous to Reagan, it was also part of a set of tactical understandings that were crucial to freeing the hostages. The press finds such unacknowledged arrangements hard to accept. It created a particularly sticky problem for shows such as Brinkley's and Meet the Press, which rely on harrying public figures into quotable answers, while their guests, grateful for the exposure, grin back at their tormentors...
...agricultural crisis" by developing crash and long-range programs. Sudan's leader, General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, told the group that Western emergency relief, "no matter how massive," could not cure the "inherent ailment in the economies of our countries." Said he: "Self-reliance is the most crucial factor if we are to address ourselves squarely and pragmatically to this issue...