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...least, Marberger, 40, is winning the battle. He is determined to qualify as an LTS, or long-term survivor, lingo for someone who has lived with AIDS for three years or longer. It is a term that applies to very few people. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, the survival rate for 4,200 AIDS patients whose condition was diagnosed between late 1978 and 1983 is 2% to 5%, nearly all of them male homosexuals who contracted the disease through sexual contact. Such slender evidence is often taken as proof by desperate members of the homosexual community...
...comparisons with Jimmy Carter, the Dukakis camp goes out of its way to insist that the Governor has learned to set limited and attainable priorities. Paul Brountas, who has replaced former Campaign Manager John Sasso as the candidate's closest confidant, contends that Dukakis failed in his abortive first term because "there were far too many legislative initiatives." Brountas predicts that the domestic agenda of Dukakis' first year in the White House would consist of perhaps a "half dozen manageable programs." Seated one row behind a dozing and generally far vaguer Dukakis aboard the campaign plane, Brountas ticked off some...
...more than six months, thinly veiled attacks on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies had been growing bolder. No one outside the ruling Politburo, however, could know for certain the strength of the General Secretary's opponents in what Moscow insiders called the battle for perestroika -- Gorbachev's term for the radical economic restructuring he is trying to carry out. Was Gorbachev's authority being seriously challenged? Or did the criticism exchanged in coded speeches and press articles amount to no more than a difference in emphasis between officials pursuing the same broad policy objectives? There were indications last week...
...margin. Last year GE captured an estimated 63% of the market, compared with 27% for Pratt & Whitney and 10% for Rolls-Royce. The company's success is a classic lesson in the value of patience and persistence, as the design of a new jet engine is a devilishly long-term process that can consume at least five years and more than $1 billion. GE took a more astute aim at the aircraft market of the future, while Pratt & Whitney failed to develop a full range of quieter and more fuel-efficient models. GE's strategy is paying off. Last year...
...managed the 1982 campaign victory and became Dukakis' chief aide at the Statehouse, where he was credited with helping Dukakis mend fences with legislators and interest groups alienated in his first term...