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...countdown to roll call in Congress, and the vote on the tax bill in the House, according to all predictions, was going to be close. The White House knew that a little salesmanship was in order, and so the Great Persuader went to work. After it was over and Ronald Reagan had once again stunned the House leadership by picking up 48 Democratic votes for his bill, the President insisted: "There hasn't been any arm twisting of any kind." Shucks, no. But there are ways, all sorts of ways...
...countdown began at 9:59 p.m. as the second hand of a clock, superimposed on the television screen and accompanied by tick-tock music, swept its way around the dial, as though a corny game show were taking place. Then, precisely at 10 o'clock, as the polls closed throughout the country, Anchorman Haim Yavin carefully read out on the state-run network the projections he had been handed half an hour earlier, which were compiled from a meticulously conducted poll of voters as they left their polling stations. The immediate TV predictions: Labor would...
...events turned out, the Sunday launch presented TIME'S staff with the most dramatic pictorial countdown the magazine has ever faced. Less than 24 hours after Columbia's blastoff, most copies of TIME featured an exclusive picture of the launch, the fastest color coverage in the magazine's history...
...NASA's press center. Cate, who has covered ten Gemini and two Apollo space missions, was not surprised by the postponement of the shuttle liftoff. Says he: "NASA has hardly ever had an on-time launch of a new spacecraft. A glitch was sure to creep into the countdown...
...final countdown had begun the previous afternoon--Thursday--at the stroke of 5 p.m., when she realized her thesis was due in exactly one week. Staying on schedule was hopeless; she still had a 25-page conclusion to write, and everything else to revise. Depression set in. She wished she were in History and Lit, which meant her thesis would not only be in, it would be at least 60 pages shorter. She wished she'd picked a useful topic instead of the epitome of esoterica: The effect of Cheddi Jagan's economic policies on bauxite production in Guyana...