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...small working group headed by Christopher was immediately set up and started to prepare bargaining tactics. The group weighed two possible strategies: detailed negotiations that would resolve all the financial and trade issues before a hostage release or a "quick and clean" approach that involved only a simple statement of broad principles by the U.S., which would lead to an immediate release but leave the details for later. The group opted for the quick and clean tactic...
Standing in the way of federal pay increases has been Congress, most of whose members regularly vote against raises for themselves and other top officials as a symbolic blow against inflation-and a survival tactic with their constituents. Since 1976 Congress has suspended or reduced automatic cost of living hikes for top officials. Salary increases for top federal jobholders are linked to those for Congress; thus, if Congress holds the lid on itself, no one else gets a raise. The main argument against pay increases, say their opponents, is that federal workers earning $50,000 to $60,000 a year...
...That too is a mark of the natural man ?the fox taken for a fool who winds up taking the taker. Yet there is no Volpone slyness in Reagan. If he has been underestimated, it may be that he gives every sign of underestimating himself?not as a tactic, but honestly. So wholly without self-puffery is he that he places the burden of judging him entirely on others, and since he is wholly without self-puffery, the judgment is almost always favorable. He simply appeals to people, and despite his years, there is hardly anyone...
...than a year of frustrated efforts to free the Americans, some of its members privately voiced hindsight regrets. One high-level insider now thinks that an early show of military force, along the lines of the belated airborne assault that ended in tragic failure, might have been a smart tactic. But Carter still argues that a hasty plan, which could have ended in the death of some or all of the hostages, would have been far worse than the prolonged imprisonment. Nor does Carter subscribe to the argument of some that in effect the 52 lives have to be weighed...
However, it was not those exceptions but the dismal state of of the American economy that Ronald Reagan into the in November. Perhaps the candidate's most effective campaign tactic was during the debate with President Carter when he looked at the television camera and asked the American people: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The answer was mostly no. Last year alone, the average real disposable income per capita fell an estimated...