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...United States must overcome a lack of confidence and harness its many strengths to produce quality goods for trade in international markets, Phillip Klutznick, secretary of commerce in the Carter administration, told an audience of about 80 at a panel discussion at the Kennedy School forum last night...
...Police Sergeant John McCarthy puts it: "Being aggressive is kind of hard for a lot of people." After attending one such class, Patricia Sherman, 29, a lawyer, complained: "I think this incites fear in people. I wasn't as scared before as I am now." But another class member, Phillip Heffernan, 30, contends: "If the crooks knew that 90% of people had Mace cans, I think they would go into other lines of work...
Nearly every weekend, Phillip Sanders drove a busload of overnight gamblers some 200 miles from Oakland, Calif, to Reno, and back again. Sanders was arrested at the finish of his 37th trip and charged with grand theft and possession of stolen property; he had been driving buses that did not happen to belong to him. As a police official put it with considerable understatement, "He had a very low overhead...
...stereotype of the priest--a role Johnson plays with subdued control--shuts out any insights into the tension and passion of a man so close to the heart of the revolutionary upheaval. The unending saccharine sweetness manifests itself again in the angelic religious devotion of Rodrigo's brother Manuel (Phillip Windemuth), who delivers his lines with unwavering child-like idealism...
...political considerations, has caused deep anxiety among many Tory M.P.s, who have to suffer the brunt of their constituents' discontent over unemployment, bankruptcies and shuttered businesses. Indeed, there is already speculation about Thatcher's political survival if economic conditions show no signs of improvement by next year. Labor M.P. Phillip Whitehead cites a British political rule of thumb: "The Labor Party always talks about getting rid of its leaders, but never does. The Tory Party never talks about getting rid of theirs?but does it." How could a coup against a leader with a 43-seat majority be brought...