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...numbers, the delegate counts and the geography suggest that those post-Illinois deductions are likely to stand up through August and that it will indeed be Carter vs. Reagan in November. But that does not mean that the voters have abandoned being devious, unruly and indecently unpredictable, in the view of the working press, as last week's New York and Connecticut primaries demonstrated. Again the headline writers had to unlimber their stuns, surprises and upsets to report Kennedy's trouncing of Carter in both states and Bush's beating of Reagan in Connecticut. As late...
...Shepherd Mead's satire How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, officeworkers are so committed to devious little games and personality conflicts that everyone seems to have forgotten what it is that the company produces and sells. In fact, a good deal of fiction has depicted the office as a war zone of neurotic combat. But according to Management Consultant Robert M. Bramson, 54, who studies such matters, that concept is unfair. Only 10% of officeworkers are relentlessly difficult, says Bramson, and anyone can learn how to cope with this troublesome minority...
...Delhi or Carter in Washington to say so. The new, "hawkish" leaders in the Kremlin (if indeed they have taken over from the doddering Brezhnev) must realize that further military moves in the area would court a global conflict. Even Henry Kissinger recognizes that the Soviets, no matter how devious they are, will hesitate before taking any new military action, and more likely will follow their armed offensive with a "peace offensive" to repair their image...
...White House also bridled at Kissinger's statements. "He is a devious and dishonorable man," one top Carter aide told reporters. "He'll go off and make cheap political statements and then call up privately and assure us that he supports the way the President is handling the crisis...
...Liberation Organization. But if anything, P.L.O. morale is higher than before. Their strength has not even been touched." Since the latest wave of Israeli attacks coincided with the current diplomatic offensive of the P.L.O., some Western observers have concluded that Israel's real motive in Lebanon is a devious one: to make it impossible for P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat to pursue a moderate course, in opposition to more radical colleagues, and thereby to destroy any chance of a rapprochement between the U.S. and the P.L.O. Concludes one American diplomat: "It's a cynical course of action, but from...