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...department "always looks" particularly hard for qualified women, Montgomery said, adding. "I'm a great girl watcher when it comes to appointments...
...view of one longtime Helms watcher in Raleigh, the son does not entirely erase the sins of the father "Jesse adopted a handicapped son," says the man. "It cost him a lot of doctor's bills. He'd give the coat off his back to help someone lying in the street, but he's not going to vote for food stamps." Indeed, during his first Senate term, Helms voted against funds for the handicapped...
...everyone is convinced that this tactic will bring down Khomeini or, if it does, that Rajavi will be the beneficiary. Rouhollah K. Ramazani, an Iran watcher at the University of Virginia, suggests that "Khomeini still has a tenacious hold on the people, especially the lower classes." French experts, who were among the first to predict the Shah's demise, contend that the Mujahedin may have suffered more at the Khomeini government's hands than they are willing to admit. Some Western intelligence sources doubt that the Mujahedin, though superbly organized, have as many followers as they claim. "They...
...spray-lashed stones of a harbor breakwater, and at the breakwater's end, facing seaward, the cloaked and motionless figure of a woman. A storm is blowing up. There is danger. A passerby, a tall, mustached young man, makes his way out along the breakwater to warn the solitary watcher. Over the rising wind he calls out to her that she is not safe. Now the mysterious figure turns, plucks aside the rough cloth of her hood and stares at the man, or through him, for a few moments. Then she turns again, having found no reason to speak...
Competitors viewed IBM's new product and marketing strategy with both interest and some relief. IBM will be a tough rival, but the smaller firms should be able to keep a good part of the market. Said Ulric Weil, a computer-company watcher for Wall Street's Morgan Stanley: "I am sure Apple feared something much more formidable." Said Apple President A.C. Markkula: "We don't see anything out of the ordinary. There are no major technological breakthroughs and there isn't any obvious competitive edge...