Word: onely
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...from experts he has long trusted, such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Nixon, and from some about whom he has misgivings, like Jeane Kirkpatrick and Henry Kissinger. Bush hopes not only to impress Gorbachev with his understanding of Soviet problems but also to argue cogently about solutions. "It's one on one, and at stake is the world," said a senior Administration official. "He's a little nervous about it, and I think that's why he's working so hard to get ready...
Then last week, amid a chorus of complaints from Congress and industry, came the results of two blue-ribbon studies, one by the National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors and the other by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Both concluded that what American high-technology industries need is more Government leadership, not less. Said Ian Ross, president of AT&T Bell Laboratories and chairman of NACS: "Every trend you look at is in the wrong direction for the U.S." Next day the Administration reversed itself again, denying that it had any plans for technology budget cuts...
...increased sales of American-made semiconductors, U.S. computer makers, who stuff their machines with foreign chips, are worried that trade tension could endanger their supply. In recent months, joint ventures between U.S. and Japanese chipmakers have multiplied at such a rate that it is getting hard to tell where one country's interests end and the other's begin...
...whether the money he gave to California's Alan Cranston, Michigan's Donald Riegle, Ohio's John Glenn and Arizona's Dennis DeConcini and John McCain had persuaded them to intervene with federal regulators on his behalf, Keating baldly declared, "I certainly hope so." Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, one of the few members of the House Banking Committee who does not accept contributions from political action committees, says that if the allegations against him are true, Keating is "a financiopath of obscene proportions -- the Rev. Jim Bakker of American commerce...
After announcing Moawad's murder on television in a voice breaking with emotion, Prime Minister Selim Hoss, an American-trained economist who has survived several assassination attempts, worked with Hussein Husseini, the speaker of the parliament, to reconvene the legislature and select a President. "Each one of us is Rene Moawad," said Husseini. "We all have the absolute duty to pursue the peace process until the salvation of the country...