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Once derided as a wimp, Bush can sympathize with Quayle's dilemma. Last week the two men spent 10 minutes in the Oval Office alone discussing the nation's latest "President Quayle scare." The next day Bush gave Quayle a public vote of confidence. "I see him in action," said Bush. "I know what he's doing. He has been extraordinarily helpful, and I can't ask any more of him." Quayle's friends say he is calm about the controversy, sustained by Bush's unflagging endorsement. Notes one: "It would be psychologically impossible to explain his genuine confidence were...
Jillson denies that threatening to sue is only a scare tactic meant to sway council votes. "When you are denied continually, you figure you have nothing to lose, so you'll be as outrageous as possible," she says...
...heart damage, but that the irregular beat persisted and that the patient would remain in the hospital during the day for further observation. Bush was still expected to return to a full workweek, however. If so, the episode would soon be over and forgotten. But it was a real scare, if only a momentary one, and a stark reminder that even the most vigorous and active of Presidents is only a heartbeat away from eternity...
...funds, insurance companies, money-management firms -- own about 58% of ITT stock and a majority of the shares in dozens of other major U.S. corporations. For decades they have almost always voted for management. If these giants turn activist -- and they are starting to -- they will throw a profound scare into executives and directors, potentially revolutionizing their world...
...Jacques Salle, editor of the Vintage Yearbook: "There's just too much good wine out there." So are the cries from Bordeaux ones of anguish or happiness? Says Peter Mayle, a British author and oenophile: "I think ((French producers)) looked at all their unsold bottles and thought up this scare so the English would worry about how little wine they had and would rush out and buy more." Besides, the vines are expected to produce second and even third buddings. And frost need not doom a crop to vinegary sneers. "Remember," says Salle, "1945 and 1961, both frost years, produced...