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Both contentions seem exaggerated. To win the budget vote, Reagan had to put on a display of wheeling, dealing and horse trading not seen since the days of Lyndon Johnson. To woo a handful of Southern Democrats, the Administration agreed to phase out gradually, rather than eliminate in 1982, federal aid to school districts near military bases, many of which are in the South. To hold Northeastern Republicans in line, the Reaganauts went along with "Nobody knows what's in their bill." one of the few spending increases in the whole budget: a $400 million rise, to $1.8 billion...
...business and political life. Chun kicked off the drive at the opening of the newly elected National Assembly earlier this month, where he denounced politicians for "engaging in cunning maneuvers to curry favor with voters." He also made sure that members of his Cabinet, including Prime Minister Nam Duck Woo, were the first to take the patriotic pledge...
...world has adopted two different strategies toward luck. Much of the planet for most of its history has tried to woo and conjure and appease it, longingly courting the force to draw near, to descend from the void of the random for an instant and shower fortune on some lucky head. To ward off luck's malevolent side, the infection of a curse, the evil eye, populations have danced and chanted and worked with charms. To predict its whims, they have studied omens, birds' flights, goats' entrails; they have consulted gypsies and star charts...
...leading contenders to form the next government-now seem unable to mount effective opposition. Before the coup, the Socialists had hoped to increase their vote substantially in the next elections, expected in 1982, at the expense of the ruling Union of the Democratic Center. They had hoped to woo away the U.C.D.'s fickle liberal wing and form a broad majority coalition. This now seems unlikely, since it would split the U.C.D. and thus endanger the entire party system-a prospect that, in the wake of the coup attempt, chills practically everybody but the military. Part of the problem...
...stadiums yawn empty and forlorn, awaiting the contests of next fall. But in one important respect, next fall has already arrived: the recruiting war, the annual midwinter crusade to corner the market on high school football flesh, has begun. College coaches have abandoned their campuses and sallied forth to woo players from small-town fields and big-city playgrounds...