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...from being the conservative outsider attacking the Establishment Republican in the White House. This year there are few issues separating him from the other candidates, making it easier for Reagan supporters to desert to Bush or some other Republican. Last month a survey of 225 corporation presidents conducted by Dun's Review showed as much support for Bush as for Reagan, Connally and Anderson combined. After a tour of the Midwest, a top G.O.P. consultant reported that businessmen are souring on Connally and turning to Bush. "They don't believe Connally can make it, and they think maybe...
Attempting to preserve unity in this welter of people and subplots, Clark resorts to some by now familiar techniques. She cuts rapidly back and forth between characters and blends past, present and future: "Right now she was still in the same ugly, dun-colored frame house on a side street in Michigan, feeling poorly as usual, without a thought of setting out for anywhere, and a certain southbound pair of hikers were still at the Canadian end of the Long Trail, a long way from the Boonton crossing where a very different couple would shortly be murdered. Not that...
When building their own facilities proves impractical, many firms pay workers part or all of the cost of enrolling in independent health clinics. Among them are Los Angeles' Atlantic Richfield Plaza Fitness Center, with twelve corporate clients, and Manhattan's Cardio-Fitness Center, which has Celanese Corp., Dun & Bradstreet Co., Time Inc. and the National Hockey League among its 35 company supporters. The centers offer the latest in rowing, cycling, jogging and weight-lifting gadgets. They provide members with freshly laundered exercise clothing, private lockers and hairdryers...
Neither Benjamin Thompson Associates nor K. Dun Gifford, spokesmen for the Carbarn Company, were available for comment yesterday...
...standards would be voluntary, in the sense that no one would be fined or jailed for flouting them. But Administration inflation hawks are discussing other ways to dun the disobedient. The most obvious is to withhold federal contracts from companies that violate the standards. Some other ideas: lean on the Interstate Commerce Commission to reject any rate increases that truck lines might seek in order to pay for a high settlement with the Teamsters; let in more lower-cost imported steel if American mills raise prices too much. Government officials are talking about administering the 1931 Davis-Bacon...