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...stature. Moreover, no one expects Baker's effectiveness as Senate mediator to be lessened if he becomes a lame duck. As his best friend in the Senate, Richard Lugar (Republican, Indiana) says, "There are people who need his patience, his ability to listen to all the guff, through all the tedium." But a Baker departure would affect his role as White House lieutenant. "The President's going to have to do his own selling," says a Republican Senator. "We'll be less inclined to put our careers on the line for the Gipper...
...release later this year, was budgeted at $9 million and now seems likely to come in at about $10 million. But Papp and Leach, neither of whom has made a film before, are confident that they like what they have done, and they are not about to take any guff from a film studio. Papp has told Leach to reshoot and get it right...
...million bbl. a day, could cut back production sharply enough to tighten the world market without doing grave damage to its own internal economy. Though Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani has been purposefully vague about his country's plans, reports out of the Persian Guff banking center of Bahrain last week suggested that the desert kingdom may be preparing to trim production at least somewhat this spring...
...flashlight-pointer, she will also turn lights on and off, fetch such small articles as keys, books and slippers, open doors, place records on a stereo turntable and put things back in their places. Says Powell: "Crystel has her own personality, and she won't take any guff...
Clearly intent on consciousness raising among the elderly, Comfort urges those over 65 to take no guff about their age. One of his encyclopedia entries is titled "Dignity. Stand on this. (See Pulling Rank.)" He advises "bloody-mind-edness"("Be ruthless to rudeness." "Show you expect respect"). Any use of titles such as Pop or Granny must be punished. "Point out acidly that you have a name and if they don't know it they can damn well ask, and that you were earning a living when they were still eating baby food...