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...Real War, the former President says that Soviet military strategy is based on the theory that you "probe with bayonets. If you encounter steel, withdraw. If you encounter mush, continue." In light of this, I do not believe President Reagan is playing a frivolous video game. He is using shrewd military strategy. Richard Jensen Atlanta...
Mondale lighted a long, thick cigar and sat back on the sofa. Though he is a shrewd political analyst, he is not reflective about himself. One wondered as he talked how much he saw of his own weaknesses. "I'm my own agent now," he said, "not someone else's advocate. I've tested myself. I went out for two years like a national vagrant, learning, changing, to see if I had what's necessary to lead...
...Socialists, the present coalition is part of a shrewd gambit to neutralize the power of the French Communist Party by co-opting much of its constituency. Although the Communists drew 28% of the vote in 1946 and 21% as recently as 1978, their support dwindled to 16% in 1981. Mitterrand saw that as the moment to pounce. If the Communists were in the government, he reasoned, they would have to support his economic policies and keep their union members in line; in opposition, the Communists would be more likely to organize strikes and ultimately begin rebuilding their strength. Mitterrand...
lacocca succeeded by indulging the passionate American love affair with the automobile. He combined a knowledge of an automobile's innards with a shrewd, almost intuitive sense of what car buyers wanted. He stripped the plain-Jane body off Ford's dowdy Falcon and replaced it with a long-hood, short-rear-deck configuration called the Mustang that in 1964 set a record for automobile sales by a first-year model (418,000). Four years later he reached into Ford's spare-parts bin again and launched the limousine-like Continental Mark III on a Thunderbird chassis...
...this point, no clear alternative has yet emerged to challenge White's corrupt administration. So White and his machine could keep City Hall by default, effectively negating his opponents through shrewd politicking and brilliant media manipulation. But if a viable alternative does emerge, Boston will be poised to replay the Chicago scenario, as one of the six challengers-all of whom, of course, decry corruption and machine politics-will take over City Hall...