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Perot's move and the debate deal prompted a cloudburst of speculation about how they would affect the race. In fact, a plausible scenario could be made for just about any result other than a Perot victory. Never before in the media age has an independent candidate had the money to match the major-party candidates in broadcast advertising. Never before have there been three televised debates so close together. The impact of these firsts cannot yet be calibrated. Together, however, they just might serve to focus attention on important issues, like the economy, rather than on the incessant assaults...
...LOOKING TO BUY A CRAFTSMAN POWER DRILL? While you're at it, why not bring home a mortgage and a couple of shares of AT&T? As unlikely a shopping trip as that might seem, it was the scenario on which Sears, Roebuck & Co. built its 1980s growth strategy to turn the nation's prototype "Big Store" into one of the largest retail companies on earth. A decade later, the retailer's executives at the landmark Sears Tower corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago have admitted defeat. In one of the most painful setbacks in its 106- year history, Sears announced...
...July Pullout. When Perot withdrew from the race on July 16, he cited the risk that his candidacy might lead to a constitutional crisis by causing an electoral-vote deadlock and throwing the election into the House of Representatives. Since that scenario had been widely discussed for months, Perot's tardy reaction to it suggested two other reasons for his pullout: 1) the realization that he could not win, and 2) his unwillingness to bankroll a full-fledged campaign...
...hope it will get some student concernsvoiced to the administration in yet another way,"Mainigi said, although she conceded that "I canimagine a scenario where they don't have muchinfluence...
...Kosovars "is the point where the conflict will automatically trigger a wider Balkan war," says a U.S. official. It would almost certainly involve Albania and perhaps Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey. If two NATO members become embroiled, the alliance could also be dragged in. "It's our nightmare scenario," says a senior British diplomat...