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...President is putting his personal ambition above his vaunted code of ethics when he overlooks the fact that when lobbyists enter the inner sanctum of White House meetings -- and both Lake and Black meet weekly with the President -- their perceived value to clients increases. A lobbyist who sits in on White House meetings always gets his phone call returned; a consultant who hands out his card to business executives knows that it carries extra weight with potential clients when it is distributed at Bush-Quayle headquarters...
...invading computer virus announced, "Do not panic. I am harmless." Horrified bank officials, who use computers to transfer billions from developed countries to hard-pressed parts of the world, wondered at first if it was possible for some tiny nation to fill its coffers by tapping into their inner sanctum. An international army of computer nerds and police experts soon tracked down the trespasser and pronounced it harmless. But what about the next one? Scotland Yard investigators, who traced the virus as far as eastern Germany, believe that disgruntled hackers there are still at work injecting disruptive electronic microbes into...
...company's most dogged problem is its image among consumers. Admits president Reuss, with a candor uncharacteristic of GM's inner sanctum: "In the early and mid-1980s, we let a lot of people down. We disappointed customers with some of our products' quality, reliability and durability. And as we were going through the change from rear-wheel drive to front-wheel drive, we had too many cars that looked alike...
Descending into sweaty locker rooms to question naked or skimpily clad, and frequently hostile, members of an athletic team is one of the least attractive duties of a sports reporter. Yet the right to conduct interviews in the players' sanctum is a cherished one, particularly for the women on the professional sports beat who won equality with their male peers in seeking access to athletes in a 1978 federal court ruling. Since then, women's ranks in sports journalism have swelled to around 500, but complaints about the obscenities and petty hostilities the female journalists regularly encounter in their work...
Theater-goers will have to wait until opening night to find out what happens to the tottering movie studio of the story. But for the musical's writers, lolling in the slightly worn chairs of the Pudding's inner sanctum, the important things are settled: the $300,000 budget to make Safari as glitzy as the era it satirizes, and the pleasure of winning the contest...