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...lawmakers that he is the right man for the Supreme Court. Though one Reagan aide described Bork as "nervous as a tic," he insists that the judge has never talked about withdrawing his nomination. "He was not asked to ((withdraw)) and didn't raise it" during a 20-minute pep talk with the President at the White House last week, said the aide. An official who spent a good deal of time with Bork last week said the nominee was more perplexed than edgy: "He has a hard time understanding 'why this is happening...
...recognize the export advantages of the weak U.S. dollar, for example, the new management at Hoechst Celanese has already decided to move some chemical production from West German factories to American ones. At the same time, new managers like Sir Gordon White are giving their American troops a pep talk. Says he: "In the U.S., you haven't got the drive to export. It's often very difficult to convince managers in companies we've bought that they should flog their products in Britain. They say, 'Why go to all of that trouble when I can sell...
...without the signature of commitment. Meanwhile, FM radio's narrow-cast formats were herding black artists into the chic ghettos of Las Vegas and the R.-and-B. stations. By now the first generation of rock-'n'-roll kids had hit their 30s and wearied of a heavy-metal pep-pill diet. The music's emotional poverty had turned them into clones of their parents: people who hated rock because it was "just noise...
...Wilson would seem past the age for such high school rituals as pep rallies, homecoming dances and senior proms. But she spent a good deal of this past school year reliving rites like these at Parkway West High in suburban St. Louis. She attended the senior picnic, the homecoming parade and the annual King of Hearts dance, a Sadie Hawkins-style bash where the girls ask out the boys. And when 550 seniors got their diplomas at graduation ceremonies last weekend, Wilson was there for all the speeches, hugs, cheers and tears...
Private U.S. citizens who donated to the cause described how North and others would give a strong pep talk about the needs of the contras and then leave it to private fund raisers like Carl Channell to ask directly for donations. Republican Senator Warren Rudman described it as a "one-two punch." According to William O'Boyle, a New York City oil investor who testified last week, he was told by North that as a Government employee he could not directly ask for donations. But Joseph Coors, a Colorado brewing- company executive, testified that in January 1986 North did personally...