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Rather than disavow the Budget Director's comments, Bush told a news conference on Tuesday that "I can feel very comfortable with his sallying forth and saying that." While Darman's critique was not directed at Greenspan personally, former Federal Reserve Governor Lyle Gramley thinks the ploy may backfire. Said he: "The Fed cannot be seen as knuckling under to pressure from the Administration...
...first British-Soviet space mission blasts into orbit in 1991, the event will have all the advertising hoopla of the Super Bowl. Glavkosmos, the Soviet space agency, has hired Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi agency to package corporate sponsorships, similar to those sold for the Olympic Games. The marketing ploy could raise an estimated $26 million to help pay for the project. During the mission, two Soviet cosmonauts and the first ever British astronaut will spend a week aboard the Mir space station. Saatchi has already designed the joint project's logo, which features a soaring goose, and has named...
...what they are paid for. They would far rather pass laws against burning the flag. But there is no Gramm-Rudman-style automatic chopping machinery that can resolve the abortion issue. Nor can abortion be finessed by handing it over to a commission of distinguished experts (although this ploy will undoubtedly be tried...
...lived. As the number of demonstrators in the square dwindled to nearly none, the students decided to employ one of civil disobedience's most sacred weapons, the hunger strike. With a large contingent of foreign press on hand for the Gorbachev visit, the decision seemed a brilliant public relations ploy. But the choice of tactics also harked back to the sensibility of a much earlier...
...small, reduction in short-range nuclear weapons. Both were crafted to appeal to U.S. allies, notably West Germany, that have been pressing Washington at least to negotiate about reducing the numbers of short-range nukes. According to some reports, Gorbachev assured Baker that his plan was not a political ploy, but Baker replied, "It certainly...