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...recollected a friend, "just to take a pain out of his own mind." As a young member of the state legislature, he was known for his insight into the opposition's strategy. Even after leaving the body, he would be called upon by his Whig colleagues not only to predict the moves that their Democratic opponents were likely to take, but to spell out the countermeasures needed to block them...
...were among the most painterly he would do for years: in Steeple Behind Trees, 1907, the caricaturist's facility of line is replaced by a splendid density of paint and assurance of marking. His way of cutting in rectangular dabs of color with a square-tipped brush seems to predict the shardlike planes of his mature work...
...good news at the gas pump masked underlying trends that were less encouraging. The prices of non-energy items rose .3% in March. Medical costs led the way, with a 1% increase. Experts expect energy prices to flatten out soon and thus predict that inflation will rise from the grave. Washington Economist Michael Evans, for example, forecasts that consumer prices will rise at a 5% annual rate during the second half of 1986. INVESTING Distant Stocks, Instant Trades...
...third quarter could reach $75 million. Last year the bank began a cost-cutting program that has involved the sale of $1.3 billion in assets and has led to some 5,000 layoffs among its 80,000 employees; 5,000 additional job losses are expected next year. BankAmerica officials predict earnings could be running at an annual rate of as much as $1 billion by the end of 1987, but many analysts are uncertain...
...been removed from day-to-day news coverage for 13 years, will handle the rough-and-tumble of the Times's third-floor newsroom. Yet his journalistic credentials are impeccable (he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Nixon's trip to China in 1972). Some predict that Frankel will nudge the Times away from Rosenthal's more feature-oriented approach and back toward a more traditional hard-news emphasis. "I would expect the paper to be a little more steady on the line," says Salisbury. "It would not dart and jab as much as Abe's paper...