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...more dependent than ever on their experts, who become more self-important with each election. Twenty years ago, when John Kennedy introduced many of today's practices, the handlers were a good deal more humble. None of them ever dominated Kennedy, who probably knew more and was tougher than...
...entrance, narrow slits for windows, and a protected inner courtyard backing on the Nile?for quick escape by boat if necessary. More than anything, it is said to resemble Hitler's bunker. Finally, another comparatively hardhearted approach gaining adherents even in the U.S. State Department is simply to be tougher in striking back next time?as the Soviets would probably be. "Tehran would never happen to the Soviets," says U.S. Antiterrorism Expert Robert Kupperman. "If it did, they would wipe out a hunk of the city, even if they lost everybody in their embassy. That has its deterrent effect...
...billion in 1978. Rates of return have slid from 11.5% of net worth 30 years ago to 8.2% today. Those rates are the lowest in all American manufacturing and will have to be improved in order to attract investment. Steelmen want the Government to raise their return by enacting tougher protection against imports, faster depreciation on plant and equipment, and less stringent environmental laws...
Kraft suggests that Kodak has recently tightened its standards. Penthouse first learned of the suspected tougher stance when a freelance photographer employed in Los Angeles had some slides withheld. Says Kraft: "We took a wait-and-see attitude. But when they kept a set of shots done by Guccione and followed that by withholding more film taken by our art director, we felt we could not sit back." Kraft adds that Penthouse has had calls from individuals who say that their slides were confiscated. He suggests that since the volume of amateur photography is far larger than that of professionals...
...second part of the Thatcher strategy, involving spending cuts and less propping up of ailing government industries, has been vigorously pushed. Last June $7.5 billion was shaved off the previous Labor government's spending plan. Still tougher classical Conservative medicine is coming. This year's budget, due this month, will include higher health prescription charges and big cuts in funds for new hospitals, roads, subsidized housing and schools...