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That might have been an understatement. By the private estimates of U.S. officials, the latest round in Geneva ranks among the roughest and least productive in the long annals of superpower negotiations. For the Reagan Administration, which gained substantial political luster in pushing for the talks, the opening session was an ominous reminder that an acrimonious and endlessly drawn-out contest of wills in Geneva could tarnish that luster. A prolonged stalemate might also downgrade any U.S.-Soviet summit to an exercise in atmospherics...
...Olive-drab Army buses wound down Pennsylvania Avenue, ferrying more than 100 members of Congress to the White House for a last- minute patriotic pitch from the Gipper. Chief Arms Control Negotiator Max Kampelman made a special guest appearance, jetting home from the Geneva arms talks to add diplomatic luster to Reagan's argument that a vote in the House against the MX would weaken America's bargaining position with the Soviets. Backstage, top Cabinet officials gave briefings to press Reagan's case to release $1.5 billion for a second batch of 21 missiles...
...Stanley. For its part, Phillips can rest easy. Pickens promised not to launch a new battle for the company for at least 15 years, and Icahn agreed to stay away for eight. But those may be meaningless pledges. With all its new debt, Phillips has lost much of its luster as a takeover target...
...changes came at a time when the new Administration badly needed a fast start on several domestic policy initiatives, most notably the immense and worrisome budget deficit. It is widely assumed that the President must move forcefully on the issue before the luster of the November election fades and his lameduck status takes hold. Yet he is already two weeks behind schedule in his budget preparations. Worse yet, his spending plan is not even close to his own goal of paring the deficit to $100 billion by the time his term ends in 1988, and he has let G.O.P. leaders...
...participating in a study of for-profit health care, says that so far he has not seen much difference between the behavior of commercial and nonprofit hospitals. Says he: "Hiring big names is good business and good academics. It's one way to achieve a certain luster. DeVries and the artificial heart give Humana legitimacy in the medical world and put its name before prospective patients. Nonprofit institutions have always done this...