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...ambitious government plan for restoring self-government to Ulster after roughly eight years of direct rule by Westminster and a decade of sectarian violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives. Atkins guardedly insisted that the Thatcher government's initiative contained "grounds for some optimism. I detect that the leaders of the political parties really do want to find a way forward...
...journalists say that it lumbers after news, instead of sprinting. "Considering the size of the staff," says Barren's Managing Editor Alan Abelson, "they should have more scoops, discover more stories." The paper also sometimes runs lightly edited corporate press releases on its inside pages. Some close readers detect a drop-off in the quality of its trademark front-page features. "They're letting some writing get into the paper that doesn't sparkle," says Michael G. Gartner, a Journal Page One editor in the early 1970s and now president and editor of the Des Moines Register...
...pick up the nation's economic tremors quickly. Treasury Spokesman Joseph Laitin points out that we do not have the foreclosures, soup lines, dispossessions and other instant aftershocks from economic swings that used to send signals racing through the political system. Letdowns are more gentle, often hard to detect in the salubrious environment of the Oval Office...
...many advertisers say that they detect a more subtle, almost schizophrenic attitude among consumers. E.E. Norris, executive vice president of the Manhattan ad agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, has nicknamed this the "splurge or scrimp" mentality. He argues that today's consumers are willing to spend heavily on goods and services that they value highly either for their ego satisfaction or convenience, such as Gucci shoes or Cuisinarts. But on products that they do not value so much, buyers are cutting corners. The extreme example: the Mercedes owner who wears K Mart clothes. Says Norris: "The consumer would rather...
...Until next time"--the phrase conjured a specter of success, a shadow of eventual secession to observers across Canada. In Levesque's deeply-set eyes Tuesday night, you could detect both shattering disappointment and tenacious optimism. The self-styled Lenin of the Quebec "revolution" viewed the setback as severe, but stressed that the verdict is still out. "The ball is in the federalists' court," he said in French, words received by his supporters with a chorus of catcalls. The loss in the plebiscite was a watershed; but it did not, to quote Churchill, mark the beginning...