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...would take a true optimist to give butter the edge in this debate or to predict that Andropov will have the power, the time, or even the inclination to push through the reforms that are necessary to turn the Soviet economy around. Still, it would be a mistake to underestimate the enduring strength of the gigantic industrial machine that Brezhnev helped build. Moreover, the often cumbersome Soviet political system is still flexible enough to allow a new generation of leaders to make crucial decisions on the allocation of resources, industrial growth and military spending that will assure the Soviet Union...
That afternoon, as I bade goodbye to my Cabinet, Muskie brought more bad news. Christopher, normally an optimist, was discouraged because the Algerians' sense of urgency seemed to have vanished. We decided that Christopher should inform Benyahia that our authority would expire at noon the next day; his plane should stand by for his departure from Algiers at that time. We hoped this order would impress on the Algerians and the Iranians that there was a deadline: noon, Tuesday, Jan. 20. After that, neither Christopher nor I could speak for the U.S., and the entire negotiations might have...
...Iacocca, the brash, cigar-chomping chairman of Chrysler Corp., is an optimist by nature. At the introduction of his company's 1983 model cars at The Woodlands Inn & Country Club near Houston last week, however, he could scarcely disguise a sense of frustration. Said Iacocca: "Chrysler is ready to go; unfortunately the economy is not. There's a lot of fear out there because there's a lot of uncertainty about interest rates, currency values and our economic policy...
...moment, that prospect does not scare Republican strategists. Michigan's Vander Jagt is enough of an optimist to predict that his party may even gain seats this year instead of losing them. "If we get a negotiated peace settlement in the Middle East, and interest rates drop a couple of points, and unemployment drops," he says, "we would take control of the House." But then he soberly admits, "Those are three big ifs." Equally big ifs everywhere are the degree to which the personality of a candidate, or a local dispute, will override other concerns. The absence...
...Betty Friedan, a Fellow entering her second year at the IOP, shot back that "I think it is obscence that the politicians of Illinois did the things they did." Missouri state representative Karen McCarthy Benson, a self-proclaimed "eternal optimist," chipped in that ERA has been reintroduced and that the fight will continue...