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Kohl intends to re-establish the coalition government that he created nearly six months ago, after the Free Democrats fled their partnership with Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Kohl's first order of business last week was to rebuff Franz Josef Strauss, 67, the brilliant but abrasively ambitious leader of Kohl's Bavarian-based sister party. In a "harmonious" 90-minute meeting at the Christian Democratic headquarters in Bonn, Strauss appeared to expect that the Free Democrats would be shunted aside in the coalition hierarchy and that he, and not Genscher, would be granted the dual posts...
Advertisers apparently share that optimism; the network has already lassoed such big league sponsors as Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss, Ford, Sears and R.J. Reynolds. "We launched TNN on Monday with 20 advertisers," says Dan Ruth, a spokesman for Group W. "We sold all the time we had." The going rate: $800 a minute. According to Robert Alter, president of the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, an industry trade group, "There's a very definite market for country music, and the market is probably more universal than people suspect...
Post-election analysis has revealed some interesting insights into the dynamics of this election. Clearly, the Christian Democrats took votes almost everywhere from the Social Democrats. Even in industrial areas like North-Rhine-Westphalia, the conservative emerged as victors, scoring heavily with women and skilled workers. Although Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union---the Bavarian sister party of the Christian Democrats--polled 10.6 percent of the vote, there is evidence his party registered less than one percent gain over the last national election results. In fact, many sophisticated voters did split their two votes between the Christian Democrats...
Blue-Jeans Giant Levi Strauss & Co. hoped to cap a decade of surging profits in 1980 by clothing the U.S. Olympic team for the Moscow Games. Not only did the American team pull out of the competition but the denim fad deflated at about the same time. The company's profits fell 43% in two years, to $126.6 million in 1982. Undeterred, Levi Strauss has won the job again and will be outfitting U.S. participants for their ceremonial appearances at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. The company will also provide uniforms for the staff and employees. All told, Levi...
...this sounds Like a lot of money, F. Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, points out that corporate Olympic contributions are "a great American tradition." Levi Strauss hopes to rekindle an old tradition of its own: growth. With a boost from pre-Olympics publicity, it is expected to show a hefty gain in profits this year...