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Washington insiders have mixed feelings about a truly tight White House ship, depending upon their own interests there. Right now, says a presidential aide, "nobody knows who's in charge of what, and people like (Defense Secretary Caspar) Weinberger slip in the back door and get policy changed at odd hours without anybody realizing what's happened." A lobbyist agrees, but prefers things that way. Says he: "If Baker blocked you, you could go to Meese or Clark. No more. Regan will nail up the back door." A Washington-based business leader sees another key difference in the Baker...
...could also have been used to reduce Occidental's $3.5 billion debt, much of which resulted from its 1982 acquisition of Cities Service. Wall Street, however, did not buy the idea, and neither did Bricker's board. As soon as merger rumors began to circulate, Occidental stock began to slip in heavy trading, falling from 26 3/4 to 23 1/8 in two days, and eroding the benefits of a merger for Diamond Shamrock's shareholders. Then, when Bricker's directors examined the terms of the merger, they saw that only two of them would sit on the board...
...vision. His critics called it a mirage. Physicists have questioned whether Reagan's ray guns would ever work adequately; even a relatively small "leakage" through the defensive umbrella would rain down horrendous destruction. Military specialists have pointed out that there is a variety of ways the Soviets could slip weapons through even the most sophisticated, multilayered space-based defenses. Economists and politicians are aghast at the eventual total cost (some estimates range from $500 billion to a cool trillion...
...even much of it, but some hours have to be claimed as one's own if time is to have value and not mere use. The missed appointments are with oneself. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man sought to live on the nodes of time so that he might "slip into the breaks and look around...
...hand held. Once again, there are Beta and VHS versions. The VHS will record up to 20 minutes of video and sound on a single, tiny cassette. To watch the minimovie, the viewer can plug the camcorder directly into a television set or slip the miniature tape into an adapter that will play it back on a conventional VHS recorder. In contrast, the Beta version will record up to two hours on a standard Beta tape, but it cannot be used to play back the cassette. The chief advantage of the VHS camcorder, sold by Zenith and JVC, is that...