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...never not belonged to anyone" seeks advice on a radio call-in show. A strong, soothing voice comes over the air waves saying "What you need is guidance, security, good friends, and a good healthy dose of self-confidence." She meets the owner of the strong, soothing voice, a poker-faced Army recruiter, and believes him when he tells her that joining the Army means living in a Monterey condominium and sailing a yacht. He also assures her that the Army is no longer sexist: "This is the Army of the eighties. Any jobs that men hold can be jobs...
...Court Years little reference is made to his personal life. Most of Douglas' hobnobbing seems to have taken place at stag parties. When his poker partners played sucker for Harry S. Truman, letting the President walk off with $5,000 despite a night of mediocre hands, Douglas reports he was so "disgusted" that he quit poker forever...
...lower levels of personal consumption, some higher taxes and less Government aid to failing companies. Thurow's solutions for the nation's ills are based on a concept borrowed from games' theory called the zero-sum game: if someone wins, someone else will have to lose. Poker, for example, is a zero-sum game. If builders beat inflation by using low-cost foreign steel, some American steelworkers will lose their jobs. Higher oil prices will encourage Exxon to explore for new domestic energy sources, but motorists will have to pay more for gasoline. In short, America...
...measure, it was a monumental achievement. "I've served in nine presidential-appointed offices, but nothing was as tough and complex as this," said Elliot Richardson, the chief U.S. delegate to the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. "It was like playing no-limit poker and three-dimensional chess at the same time." Richardson, who served as both Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare during the Nixon Administration, was talking about the negotiations for a Law of the Sea treaty, which came to a virtual conclusion last week after six years...
...also a good poker player and considers himself a pretty fair carpenter: "The last thing I built was an elaborate dollhouse for my daughter Alexis. It belongs in a museum, if I do say so myself." Brinkley would rather spend an afternoon in a hardware store than on the Washington celebrity circuit. He is one of the few major stars in TV news who still negotiate their own salaries; his is now close to $700,000 a year, including expenses...