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...screen. A computer combines the results and displays them instantaneously to the survey takers. EAR tests conducted during several Democratic debates last summer suggested that Arizona Democrat Bruce Babbitt was not coming across well on TV. Babbitt's staff reviewed the videotapes and ordered special coaching to sharpen the candidate's delivery...
While it is still unclear where the candidates standings are at this point, the senator still has to sharpen his image with voters. He has scheduled the announcment of his official candidacy in N.H. on November 9, and has waged a major effort to meet individually with voters...
...haven't gotten to the really boring part yet," Jane adds. After several weeks of analyzing, she was promoted to sharpening pencils--3500 Number Twos, to be exact. (Did you ever wonder who sharpened all those pencils for your standardized tests? Now you know.) Jane says the pencils were the most boring part of the summer, at least until she realized "you can sharpen pencils and read Lady Chatterley's Lover at the same time...After that I listened to the Grateful Dead because my boss went on vacation...
...quiet, maybe a bit too quiet. America's economic problems seemed to be taking a summer vacation last week, as if to give the incoming Federal Reserve chairman, the new U.S. money czar, a few moments to plug in his computer terminal and sharpen his pencils before the first crisis. To a remarkable degree, everything was going Alan Greenspan's way, as the nominee prepared for the Herculean job of succeeding the retiring Paul Volcker. The Dow Jones industrial stock average zoomed to a new peak of 2572.07. The dollar, which had spent much of the past two years...
THERE'S REALLY not much in Cambridge for the social critic. Where Oscar Wilde had the stuffy yet elegant mannerisms of the Victorian British upper class to sharpen his quill against, his Cantabrigian counterparts have nothing more than faded rebels and pseudo-punks as the objects...