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...embarrass the Governor. Gardner, heir to a Weyerhaeuser lumber fortune, styles himself a "citizen politician." He traveled through the state like a breath of fresh Cascades air, accusing Spellman of creating buck-passing commissions to deal with fiscal problems. Spellman fought back by claiming that Gardner was a "shill of labor." The charge backfired when the Teamsters withdrew their endorsement of the Governor...
...Pierce County, that the bland, cautious Spellman wound up with a mere 27% of the total vote. The latest polls show Gardner, a crisp administrator with a Harvard M.B.A., running 17% ahead of Spellman. The Governor has taken to shrill attacks on his opponent, charging Gardner with being a "shill of labor" who left his county "a shambles...
...Contradora group largely plays the role of combining a convenient mechanism for the Reagan Administration not to negotiate directly with Nicaragua, or directly with Salvadoran revolutionaries. At the same time, we refuse to back the Contradoras in any way and therefore we are using the Contradoras as a shill to keep the appearance of negotiation going while at the same time, we drive a militaristic policy forward, and that. I told you, is going to build up deep resentments among the presidents and the foreign ministers and others who made it their commitment to Salvador...
...however, until a Washington, B.C., TV station, which had picked up the program, began using the President's words for 30-second promo spots. The program went on as scheduled, but before it did, the station pulled the plugs, effectively canceling double R I's license to shill...
...Jobs is deft at dealing with his peers and elders in commerce, a comforting combination of overnight plutocrat and shill for a new gold rush, he is positively hypnotic when he takes the computer gospel to the young. Jobs is youthful enough to fit right in and both bright enough and rich enough to get respect. Certainly, he does not live like a superstar. His pleasant home in Los Gates is nothing that would interest Architectural Digest: freshly laundered shirts lie on the floor of an unfurnished second bedroom, a love letter is magneted to the kitchen fridge, the master...