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...Reagan's strongest lead is in the Midwest (46% to 26%) and the South (47% to 28%). His lead is smaller in the Northeast (41% to 35%) and the West (44% to 37%). Reagan holds a 30-point advantage among those making $30,000 or more a year, but trails by two points among those making less than...
...book's strongest sections cover the arts of selling and negotiating. McCormack's skills in these areas are both revered and reviled: in siding circles he was once dubbed "the abominable snow-job man." A negotiator, says McCormack, should give in on minor points to soften up the opposition and ease the way for whining the important issues. Use silence as a stratagem, he urges. If a negotiator holds his tongue, the opposition may find the silence uncomfortable and volunteer information or make new concessions...
Still, it was a near thing. As the competition began the last two of its six events, just hundredths of a point separated the Americans and the Chinese, with the Chinese leading as they headed toward the high bar, their strongest apparatus, and the floor exercise. The teams set up side by side at one end of the arena, the Americans on the parallel bars, the Chinese on the high. Their scores flashed seconds apart in a tit-for-tat exchange of steadily mounting tension. Johnson opened with a 9.80 to Li Yuejiu's 9.90. Hartung countered with...
...already off to a roaring start last week. The Government released economic statistics that could hardly have pleased Ronald Reagan more. From April to June, the gross national product grew at a 7.5% annual rate, after adjustment for inflation. In the past 18 months, the U.S. has enjoyed the strongest recovery since the boom that followed the recession of 1949. And at the same time, inflation has slowed. Consumer prices, which have risen at a modest 4.1% annual pace during the first half of the year, increased at a 2% rate in June. That combination of high growth...
This year Cameroon is clearly the strongest team in Africa as it beat Nigeria 3-1 to win the African Nations Cup in March. Last fall Cameroon was undefeated in the Olympic qualifying tournament...