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That was made clear on Friday in a personal telephone call to Reagan by Kohl. Indirectly, Reagan raised the possibility of bypassing Bitburg for a less explosive site. Speaking in a somber tone out of keeping with his amiable personality. Kohl advised Reagan that to cancel Bitburg could impair official relations between the two governments and, more important, hurt "the feelings between Germans and Americans." Reagan assured Kohl that he would not buckle under to the pressure at home...
...hard to soothe the Likud's feelings. In a similar vein, Weizman complained to Mubarak that a recent attack on Shamir in an Egyptian newspaper was not conducive to improving relations between the two countries; an obliging Mubarak called in a group of Cairo editors and told them to tone things down...
...past several years, Turner has tried to tone down his strutting style, seemingly in the hope of gaining acceptance among Wall Street's buttoned-down moneymen. He realized that his success in any takeover battle will depend on winning the confidence of institutional investors like pension funds, which hold more than 60% of CBS stock. Nonetheless, the drawling Southerner remains largely an outsider. When he went shopping for an investment banker for the CBS deal, he was reportedly turned down first by Drexel Burnham Lambert and then by Shearson Lehman. Finally he reached a deal with E.F. Hutton, a relatively...
...great,” Allard said. “She was very ready. She set a tone, she was motivated, she’s improved tremendously this year, and she did a great...
...They came out ready,” Allard said of her hitters, “and scoring a run immediately set a great tone...