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Which is no accident. "You know how, in college football, coaches let up on * the other team to spare them embarrassment?" Clinton asked. "Pros don't do that. You never let up. You keep scoring till the game's over. You hit back, and you hit back again. If you don't, you lose...
...jokes seem a quaint throwback to an earlier comedy era ("You can call me a doubting Thomas -- or you can call me Marlo Thomas . . ."). What makes it work is the zingy performances by Christine Ebersole (as feisty but lovable Nurse Gunn) and Kevin Conroy (as a conceited surgeon), two pros who tackle this fluff as if it were Moliere...
Bhatti said he would like to hold a publicmeeting to consider the pros and cons of a watertaxi
...frictions are most acute in Oklahoma, Colorado and Illinois, where hotshot pros have shoved aside older volunteers who have labored for months to get their man on the ballot. In some instances the acrimony has led to legal battles. In Tulsa organizer Pat Clancy says a Dallas-based team took over his group's bank account when they consolidated operations in Oklahoma City. When Clancy balked at being shut out, the World War II veteran was told he was a "security risk." According to Cliff Arnebeck, a Perot volunteer in Ohio, the Dallas-based advisers "squelch and humiliate" grass-roots...
Perot seems content to let the pros run the campaign. He never attends the daily 8 a.m. tactical sessions and rarely involves himself in the debate over how to set up and maintain operations in each state. Perot has also kept hands off in the research-and-development area of the campaign. Issues chief John White, a Deputy Budget Director in the Carter Administration, is developing positions for Perot on the economy, crime prevention and foreign affairs. White has hired 12 young policy analysts to interview experts on various subjects, some of whom have been flown to the Dallas headquarters...