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...adroit at reinforcing the vehemently anti-Soviet philosophy of his boss, Caspar Weinberger. He has a knack for choosing the right time and place to force decisions and for making key bits of information public as part of his effort to obstruct any serious compromises by Washington that could woo Moscow into an arms agreement. But + when it comes time to deal with the outside world, Perle can be an effective team player. Indeed, he was among the first officials picked as part of the U.S. delegation to Moscow last week because he had proved himself constructive in two crucial...
With such high competitive stakes, the Big Three long-distance firms spent inordinate sums to woo their customers. AT&T dished out an estimated $200 million on the election, or nearly half its annual advertising budget. MCI invested $75 million, and US Sprint $70 million...
...pause and replied, "Love." Did Betsy mean that the artist, known for his continuing and intimate relationships with the subjects of his paintings, was having an affair with his model? Or could it be that Betsy's public hint of that affair was part of an elaborate strategy to woo media attention and thus inflate both the price of the works and the value of Wyeth's middlebrow eminence? There were no immediate, incontrovertible answers, but the story's hold on the popular imagination proved that Wyeth is still the one artist whose style and personality can tantalize America. Through...
...Burr announced that People would upgrade all its services, install leather seats in its aircraft, and offer --horrors!--luxury flying in newly installed first-class seating. At the same time the determinedly upscale VIP lounge was set up in North Terminal. The counterrevolutionary campaign was a clumsy attempt to woo the slice of the airline market that People had never served, the business traveler. The change in style came on the heels of a brief People effort to raise fares, a move that was reversed within seven weeks...
...prominent in the 1 p.m. "gold rush" today, when campaign workers are allowed to race each other to the best locations for posters in Springfield's Civic Center. D'Amico is reportedly spending $17,000 on the convention. Murphy, whose campaign is better financed, will probably spend more to woo delegates...