Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...approach just might work. Even Reagan's own strategists do not expect his big lead in the public opinion polls ?28 points just after the Republican Convention?to last for long. Indeed, they would not be surprised to see it cut in half by Labor Day. Pat Caddell, Carter's pollster, told TIME editors at lunch last week that "we may come out of this convention less than ten points behind, and I would prefer to come out ten to 15 points down?far enough down where we are clearly the underdog and Reagan is clearly...
...losing the nomination, he punctured the myth of Kennedy invincibility and thus opened the way for campaigns by other Democrats like Vice President Walter Mondale, Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, Governor Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. Some of these men are further along in reshaping a new Democratic approach to government than is Ted Kennedy...
Manhattan-born, European-educated Casablancas, 37, has lured the girls and revolutionized the business with a combination of personal charm, a fine eye for female sensuality, and marketing sagacity. Says he: "The girls were tired of the supermarket approach to modeling. They wanted more personalized service." Which he provides. He strokes their egos, breaks out champagne for newcomers and maintains a relaxed, easygoing manner that contrasts with Eileen Ford's housemotherly approach. Says blond Lisa Murrell, 24, a "bread-and-butter girl" who poses for many mail-order catalogues, and has twice quit and returned to Casablancas: "I feel...
...come-with-me-to-Casablancas approach does not appeal to his competitors. "I confess to unpleasant feelings about John," the urbane Jerry Ford told TIME. "His methods are sleazy. I don't like him and I don't respect him." William Weinberg, who has headed Wilhelmina since the death last year of the former Ford model who founded the eponymous agency, disparages Casablancas with the observation: "The agencies were always competitive but never this low. The Fords always evidenced an ethic and created many of the good practices that benefited the models." Says Casablancas, who speaks in often...
...even putting three sailmakers on his crew. "We're not a great deal faster than they are," Conner says. "But all the sailing and all the preparation we did beforehand just gave us a little bit of an edge." Turner complains that Conner's "tremendously professional approach" has changed the Cup for the worse. Says he: "It knocks out of the competition forevermore anyone who's not prepared to give up three years of his life...