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...course, highly styled simplicity. Pantsuits are back, with pleated trousers that are cuffed, tapered, and short enough to restore the ankle to the erogenous zones. Jackets are often short, with wide shoulders but enough careful tailor ing to avoid the tough-guy, gangster look...
...nationalizations. He finally whittled this figure down to 729, but Francois Mitterand, chief of the Socialist Party, wanted to keep the actual number of nationalized companies as low as possible. White collar workers and managers comprise about one-third of the Socialist's Constituency, and Mitterand has to tailor his policies to their support. The Socialists held firm to their limit of no more than 227 nationalizations, and the coalition collapsed...
...Jordan on the night of Dec. 6. He had his passport stamped, cashed $200 in traveler's checks and strode out of the airport. About eight hours later Holden's body was found beside a road near the airport, his pockets empty, the labels ripped off his tailor-made suit and a single bullet hole in his back...
...Honourable Schoolboy, arguably le Carre's best novel since The Spy Who Came In From the Cold landed him on the publisher's all-star team, carries that strain of realism to its logical and dramatic conclusion. Taking up where he left off in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre chronicles the efforts of a demoralized Secret Service to regain its reputation and, more important, its sense of self-respect, in the wake of its infiltration by a Soviet double agent. The task falls on the shoulders of George Smiley, typically a shrewd but atypically a paunchy and unglamorous secret...
Earlier newspaper researchers merely found out what kind of product readers liked and let publishers decide how to tailor it. The news doctors typically make specific proposals for reform, and tend to regard newspapers more as packaged goods than as public-service institutions. Says Donald J. Morgan of GMA Research Corp. in Bellevue, Wash.: "We look at the newspaper as a product, just as we would something from Procter & Gamble...