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...destroyed two candidates and a campaign manager. But in the heat of the presidential campaign, it remains imperative to remember the famous Freudian crack that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Stepping back from the quest for great psychological truths does not mean abandoning the praiseworthy attempt to predict presidential performance. But there are methods other than pop psychology for judging would-be leaders; they may not be as flashy, but they are more easily measured and assessed. Each candidate brings to the campaign a distinct management style that serves as a rough approximation of how he might react...
...make up this oddest of odd couples begin huddling in the White House Oval Office Tuesday morning, they have a strong chance of forging a new superpower relationship more hopeful than either would have dared predict after the collapse of their meeting in Reykjavik just 13 months ago. That they will accomplish their stated goal became a certainty last Tuesday, when U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resolved the last differences holding up a treaty to destroy all Soviet and U.S. missiles with ranges of 300 to 3,400 miles...
...season will culminate with Heps in late February at Cornell. "It's hard to predict [what will happen at Heps]," Haggerty said. "It depends on the development of the freshmen...
...back. Police last week found the body of a man in a cloth bag along a Manila highway. On the sack were the words THIS IS A VIGILANTE. Says Max Soliven, a columnist for the daily Philippine Star: "The seeds of civil war are being sown, and nobody can predict where it will...
...survey of 35 economists last week predicted that the economy will expand at a humdrum 2.8% annual rate during the last half of 1987 and a sluggish 1.4% in the first half of 1988. While that is a definite slowdown, it is not quite a dead halt. A few economists, however, predict a recession. Among them is Irwin Kellner, chief economist for Manufacturers Hanover, the New York City banking company, who thinks the U.S. economy will shrink by 2% in the first half of 1988 before quickly recovering...