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...Senate the previous week, when lawmakers handed Reagan a 55-to-45 victory. Led by Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, the Armed Services Committee chairman, who drew hisses and boos when he defied his party's leadership and defended the MX, the House gave Reagan slimmer but significant margins in the back-to-back votes (219 to 213 on Tuesday, 217 to 210 on Thursday) needed to free the MX funds. The outcome was clearly influenced by Democrats' reluctance to be seen as "soft on defense." Said California's Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee: "The only concern...
...problem with Packaging, however, is that if you really need Yao's advice, your chances of getting accepted to one of his "top-ten" law schools are probably slimmer than his book (127 pages). Packaging is very serious about being remedial. The book is typeset with letters large enough for Dr. Seuss captions. And it is written, according to Yao, "like a good legal memorandum..lean, basic, and in plain English" I don't know about the "legal memorandum" stuff, but Yao isn't kidding about the plain English. A sample: "Misspellings and typos often overlap. It is sometimes hard...
...interviews with Secretary of State George Shultz, which could probably have been conducted via satellite from their studios in New York City. For NBC's Today Anchor Bryant Gumbel and ABC's Good Morning America Anchor David Hartman, who also moved their shows to Geneva, the rewards seemed even slimmer...
Sure, footballs do get tossed around in the Bronx, and warm weekend afternoons are reserved for softball. But even on the hottest slimmer days there's basketball, neighborhood playground basketball...
...York Times/CBS News survey released last week, 57% of those questioned generally approved of the way he is doing his job. The same poll had Reagan piling up commanding leads of 48% to 32% over Mondale and 51% to 29% over Senator John Glenn of Ohio. Other surveys show slimmer margins, and Gallup actually puts Reagan neck and neck with either Mondale or Glenn. But in no poll does the President trail nationally...