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...past few presidencies. What has saved it until recently from the acrimony accorded previous Administrations was Reagan's amiability-an arm's length amiability, to be sure-with the press. Increasingly, Reagan's genetic optimism is contradicted by the facts. The reporters' questions sharpen; his replies fail to assuage...
There were other similarities. As in Stalin's last years, Kremlin iconographers labored to hide the ravages of age and disease. His portraits were meticulously airbrushed to darken his gray hair, to erase his wrinkles, to sharpen his jawline. Sound engineers who monitored his broadcasts used electronic magic to mask his slurred speech, possibly the result of a stroke. The disguises fell through when Brezhnev was placed in the harsh glare of cameras that could not be controlled by party discipline. At his meeting with President Carter in Vienna in June 1979, he stumbled and nearly fell while descending...
Whatever these youngsters make of their computer experiences, they will surely confront the world differently from their BILL of PIERCE ease. Many parents. The precise, orderly steps of logic required to use and program the machines promise to shape-and sharpen-the thought processes of the computer generation. Indeed, the youngsters playing all those strategy games are doing precisely what corporations do when they plan to launch a new product or what military leaders do when they devise strategies to confront a potential...
While the Reagan Administration is currently giving El Salvador $104 million in economic aid, it is also contributing $80 million to the armed forces. In October 1980, Washington sent the first of 51 noncombatant military advisers to El Salvador to sharpen the army's counterinsurgency skills. Last January, the U.S. Army began a training program for 1,466 Salvadoran troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Benning, Ga. The Pentagon hopes that the course will solve one key weakness of the army: a lack of skilled young leaders to command small units. Says one U.S. military analyst: "The basic Salvadoran...
...leader in losses. During 1981, it flew about $360 million in the red. To raise money, Pan Am two years ago sold its headquarters building in New York City and made $294 million. Last year it sold its profitable chain of Intercontinental Hotels for $500 million. To sharpen a sagging management, Pan Am's board of directors encouraged William Seawell to retire last year and named C. Edward Acker, then the boss of Air Florida, as new chairman...