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...technical point, for by then the election had become a romp. When the votes were tallied, Alfonsin, 56, and his center-left Radical Civic Union party had outpolled Luder and the Peronists, 52% to 40%. Of the 15.2 million votes cast, the Radicals won 7.7 million, the Peronists 6 million. Though the new President faces a horizon of uncertainty, the results marked a fresh chapter in Argentine history. For the first time since it was founded by Juan Domingo Perón 37 years ago, the Peronist party has lost a free national election. Alfonsin succeeded in doing what...
...used to be a children's romp, before the scares of chocolate-covered razor blades. Long, long before that, it was a religious occasion for their pagan elders, and now it has been taken back by the grownups-masks, costumes, witches, jack-o'-lanterns and all. Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear. This year's celebration will be the most raucous ever, lasting four or five days in some places, a virtual Halloweek...
...previously unheralded Hoyt, who has won 43 games over the past two seasons and led the White Sox' second-half romp to the AL West title, received 17 first-place ballots and was the only one named by all 28 voters on a special panel of baseball writers...
COMBINING THE TALENTS of Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen with those of veteran director Arthur Hiller would seem to promise, if not quite the "very different love story" described by the director, at least an effervescent romp in the style of Arthur. Unfortunately, neither Moore's broguish charm nor Steenburgen's poignant spaciness can save Romantic Comedy from its writer and director. Rather, the actors' valiant attempts to save the show make it all the more perturbing to watch. Observing cast members with their flies inadvertently unzipped for an hour and a half would, in fact, provide a comparable level...
...should top managers deal with this problem? If this appears to be a "purely sexual, transitory affair," the best advice is to ignore it in the hope that one executive or the other "will soon tire of the romp." True love, whatever its virtues, is a more difficult issue. Collins' ultimate solution is for the lower-ranking executive to leave the company, although the person should be given help in finding another job. Writes Collins: "Coming to the recognition that someone must go is painful but, I regret to say, inevitable." Collins concludes that unresolvable conflicts of interest will...