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After his White House years, Henry Kissinger concluded that a successful President should have two complete teams-one to handle his politics and the other to move in and govern. The skills and attitudes needed for the two functions are so dissimilar, said Kissinger, that if a President maintained his campaign mentality too long, his Administration tended to be preoccupied with political process rather than results. Regrettably, neither Reagan nor Mondale seems to grasp that truth...
...recipes for five-alarm chili. Republican Phil Gramm and Democrat Lloyd Doggett have been trying to cope with this volatile hodgepodge as they crisscross the state in their quest to win the Senate seat held by retiring Republican John Tower. The Lone Star candidates are as sharply dissimilar as the voters they are courting. Comments San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Doggett supporter: "No one can say it's hard to tell the candidates apart...
...nature of the conflict is also dissimilar. In Vietnam, we unwittingly fought not against communism, but rather Vietnamese nationalism. Ho Chi Minh succeeded not as an exponent of class struggle, but of national struggle: Vietnamese saw him as the leader who would free them from the colonial subjugation that had started with the Chinese, continued with the French, and would end with the Americans...
Under the decisions, businesses now have the freedom to deal with unions as they would with any other creditor. Big Labor is not Big Business, however, and the negotiating processes for a company and its employees on the one hand and two companies on another are completely dissimilar...
...cannot imagine anything so destructive as a bureaucracy for determining the comparable worth of dissimilar jobs, like comparing a secretary with a truck driver. Why not let the proven method of supply and demand govern the worth...