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...publisher also took Sununu through a quickie job interview. What did his subordinates think of him as a boss? "Contrary to what the press has said, they'd say this is the smoothest-running White House they've ever had," boasted Sununu. Would he mind traveling? "No, no," said Sununu, who came under fire for using government planes for personal business. Sununu's later reaction to the scam: "I didn't think I got hoaxed. I believe people." No word yet as to his real future employer's identity...
Bush finally did something last week -- in fact, several things. He replaced unpopular White House chief of staff John Sununu with Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, a likable moderate who has emerged as one of the Administration's smoothest troubleshooters. He appointed a trio of pragmatic political strategists -- Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, pollster Robert Teeter and Republican businessman Fred Malek -- to lead his re-election campaign. Yet before the week ended, two of Bush's advisers publicly disagreed about the wisdom of cutting taxes for the middle class, once again underscoring the divisions within the President's inner circle about...
Black ice is, in Lorene Cary's words, "the smoothest naturally occurring ice there is." This rare formation--years often pass without its occurrence--allows a view deep into the solid water, without the reflection and refraction of common...
That did not mean relations were on the smoothest possible track. A "tough- love working relationship" was the term White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater used to describe U.S.-Soviet dealings these days. Tough in more ways than one. During Shevardnadze's five sessions with Baker, some serious snags appeared in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Afterward, a senior Soviet official said it was "impractical" to assume that a pact limiting the most destructive portions of the superpower arsenal would be signed at the Bush-Gorbachev meeting. Nonetheless both U.S. and Soviet sides agreed that all the major issues...
...Talk about cutthroat competition. Boston-based Gillette, which dominates the $700 million U.S. wet-shaver market with a 65% share, sued Swedish-owned rival Wilkinson Sword last week for claiming in a TV commercial that its new Ultra Glide razor provides the "smoothest, most comfortable shave known to man." No matter that manufacturers have freely boasted for years that their products are the biggest, the best or even the most aromatic. Gillette accused Atlanta- based Wilkinson, which controls 4% of the blade market, of false advertising...