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Last Tuesday night Dukakis summoned Brountas and Sasso to his home in Brookline, Mass. By the end of the evening the decision was made to welcome the errant surrogate son back into the fold. Sasso was awarded the purposely ambiguous title of vice chairman of the campaign. But in effect the campaign structure was altered to allow each member of the ruling troika to do what he or she does best. Sasso will become the dominant figure, mapping strategy and massaging Democratic political leaders. Brountas, who combines political inexperience with mature judgment and long friendship with Dukakis, will provide...
...trains levitate. As Manfred Wackers, chief systems analyst for Thyssen's team, puts it, "Our system is attractive. Theirs is repulsive." Meaning: the two systems use opposite ends of the magnet to lift off. In the West German model, winglike flaps extend beneath the train and fold under a T-shaped guideway. Electromagnets in the guideway are activated by a distant control station, their polarity opposite that of electromagnets in the wings. Because of the attraction between the poles, the magnets in the guideway pull on the magnets in the wings, lifting the train...
...first thing is that he is from Tennessee. Another reason is because he is seen as a moderate. While he is a good friend of NAACP President Benjamin Hooks, it isn't for certain that he could bring in Blacks. Baker could bring in some moderate Democrats to the fold...
Long before he was a presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson made a name for ^ himself as an able negotiator. He knows instinctively how to bluff and bargain, when to hold 'em and when to fold...
Janet Wells took over the Sistersville Tank Works in West Virginia to save her job. Wells, a bookkeeper, bought the company in 1984 in partnership with her daughter Darlene just as the firm was about to fold. Says Wells: "The men didn't think we would last for six weeks. But there weren't any other jobs around, so they stuck with us." The company, which builds storage tanks and provides field services for Amoco, DuPont, Union Carbide and other clients, has more than tripled its sales under the ownership of the two women, from $1 million...