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...rise above this sectarian approach to things, to realize that governing does not mean pandering piecemeal to every possible constituency. And he properly makes the comment that all this being said, the call for the "national interest" as opposed to the "special interest" is in itself a political ploy on the part of those he calls neoliberals. "If one thing rings false in all the rhetoric of neoliberalism." Rothenberg writes near the end, "it is that the 'national interest' may be nothing more than than the special interests of the liberal upper middle class...
Walt Disney Productions and St. Regis Corp., the forest-products firm, have both been victims of greenmail. In a greenmail ploy, an investor buys enough stock in a company to pose a takeover threat in hopes that the firm's officers will buy him out at a premium. Disney paid $297.4 million in June for shares held by Financier Saul Steinberg, who made a quick $32 million profit. St. Regis has been greenmailed twice, first by Sir James Goldsmith, the British industrialist, and then by Loews Corp., the hotel and movie-theater company...
Shamir repeated his pledge to invite Labor to join a national unity government if he is elected, but Peres quickly turned aside the offer as an "election ploy." Nonetheless, the winner almost certainly will need the support of several small parties to build a coalition. Shamir could glean bright news from polls that show Tehiya, an ultra-right-wing Likud partner with three Knesset members, picking up six or seven seats. If the election is taper thin, that could be enough to tip the balance in Shamir's favor...
...than his callee's. (Incidentally, the only effective response to hearing the secretary's "Please hold for..." is to hang up without explanation. After two or three times, Mr. Godot himself will place the call, as he should have done at the start.) But the "please hold" ploy is a mere flicker in the annals of great and horrible waiting. Citizens of the Soviet Union would think it bourgeois decadence to complain about such a trifle. The Soviets have turned waiting into a way of life. The numb wait is their negotiating style: a heavy, frozen, wordless impassivity...
Critics dismiss some of the bankruptcy talk as a scare tactic. Says Michael Totten, director of the Critical Mass Energy Project, a Washington conservation group: "It could be a bluff or a negotiating ploy. You can get a lot of mileage by scaring people. The companies have found a new weapon to force states to raise rates...