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...concentrated on wooing the nation's 5 million first-time voters and persuading the working class that the Peronists were violence-prone and manipulated by corrupt union leaders. He also profited from divisions within the Peronist camp. After a brawling convention last September, the union leaders won the nod for Luder, a constitutional lawyer and former Senate president. Already perceived as a labor puppet, Luder and his running mate Deolindo Bittel often found themselves overshadowed by a fistful of union nabobs, including the party vice president, Lorenzo Miguel, leader of 140,000 metalworkers, who has been accused of sparking...
Shamir gets the nod...
...fashioned Hollywood weepies demanded that the audience surrender to the prejudices of gender: that women were delicate, noble creatures, emotional yearlings, easy prey for the stronger, predatory male. Cross Creek is an inspirational weepie, asking the viewer to nod off with it into a dream of American rural purity. There, a backwoods shack just has to house a community of decent souls, and poverty is God's way of saying "Trust to your own resources," and folks' closeness to the land makes them more sensitive to the changing seasons of the heart. These propositions may be true...
...members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but for the favor of the five men who run the five major political machines within the party. Each machine has its own leader, its own views and its own funds. Feuding is chronic. Nakasone won only after he had got the nod from former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, who remains the party's mightiest power-broker even though he is now on trial for accepting $2 million in bribes...
Foreign businessmen must be wary of mistaking Japanese politeness for agreement. A Japanese negotiator may frequently nod and say "hai" (yes) during talks. But the word is also used to signify that the conversation is being followed, much like the English "uh-huh," or "I see." So yes is not always...