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...whatever last week's Republican National Convention failed to achieve as political drama, it played wonderfully well as pageantry, especially after the King arrived for his coronation. Merely by waving at Wife Nancy on a giant closed-circuit television monitor visible throughout the hall, Ronald Reagan, Rex Republicans, brought his G.O.P. court roaring to its feet. Formally accepting his nomination to a second term, Reagan could hardly restrain the ecstatic ritual chants of "Four more years!" that repeatedly interrupted his speech. While savoring the moment, he finally pointed to his watch and reminded his audience, "It's getting...
...voted in 1932 for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic platform pledged a 25% cut in federal spending, and he campaigned on a return of authority to the people who had lost it to the Government. I went on and was a loyal Democrat. But on the mashed-potato circuit I began to talk more and more about how Government had expanded and was infringing on liberties and interfering with private enterprise. One day I came home from a speaking tour, and I said to Nancy, 'I go out there and make these speeches, which I believe, and then every...
...saying that the high-tech boom is over, though, or that Silicon Valley is about to short-circuit on its own success. Well-managed companies with strong market niches are thriving, and investors continue to back new ventures in high-growth businesses. Among them: CAD/CAM machines that are used for computer-aided design and manufacturing, and computer-aided engineering equipment. Still, the El Dorado atmosphere has waned. Says Public Relations Executive Richard Moran, a former Atari employee: "A gym teacher in Indianapolis still views Silicon Valley as the promised land. But a lot of people here...
Olive wants nothing less for Verena than an airtight existence as her personal protege and possession. For a time, things work out: Verena is genuinely fond of her mentor, discloses her every thought and act, and shows promise as the darling of the East Coast parlour circuit as she delivers feminist addresses to fashionable audiences...
...February, four workers were seriously injured at a circuit board plant in Derry, New Hampshire, after being exposed to the solvent methylene chloride. Methylene chloride was also the cause of illness to 61 workers at the Analogic Plant in Danvers two years...