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What happened was that Campaign Manager John Sasso phoned Dukakis in Iowa Sept. 27 to warn him that a story in the forthcoming edition of TIME identified the Dukakis campaign as the source of the video. Dukakis somewhat cryptically told Sasso to "check out" the story. But the Governor, who likes to portray himself as a hands-on manager who pays close attention to detail, overlooked one rather salient question. By his own account, he never asked Sasso if the story was true...
Anna Cosby also passed along her eccentric way of viewing the commonplace. "She would tell me that if I swallowed the seeds along with the grapes, branches would grow out of my ears and the neighbors would hang laundry on them," Bill recalls. "She would warn that if I kept playing with my navel, it was going to pop out and all the air would spew out of my body and I'd fly around backwards, flopping around the room...
Most of that popularity benefits the U.S. firm Walt Disney, which has registered 350 trademarks for its products in China, including 45 that feature Mickey. But unauthorized copying of the familiar mouse image has reached the point that six weeks ago, an official Chinese tabloid, Market, had to warn would-be pirates against the practice...
...matter how good the concept, it must be well executed. Experienced franchisers warn that the potential franchisees must be carefully screened, since the future success of the company depends on their reliability and hard work. Says Victoria Morton, founder of Denver-based Victory International, which franchises the Suddenly Slender and Designer Body weight-loss centers: "It's like marriage. We have to like and trust them, and they have to like and trust us." Dan Stamp, founder of Priority Management Systems, a Vancouver-based chain that helps executives organize their time, says he looks for "high self-esteem...
...Persian Gulf toward Oman. Suddenly two aging F-4 Phantom jets rose up from Iran's Bandar Abbas air base, near the Strait of Hormuz, and streaked toward the American planes. The Iranians kept coming even after two more Tomcats swept down from a higher altitude and tried to warn them off by radio. One of the Tomcat pilots ordered his weapons officer to open fire once the Phantoms approached within 20 miles. Apparently alerted to the oncoming missiles by radar-tracking systems aboard their planes, the Iranian jets swooped away...