Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy won 16 of the 52 Minnesota delegate votes to the National Convention. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune's political analyst called the election "one of the most stunning upsets in Minnesota history...
Have a lot of people underestimated George C. Wallace? His adroit performance last week left even the skeptics concerned about his effect on the 1968 election. "If you dismiss him out of hand as a clown in an Uncle Sam suit," said Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "you make a grievous error. He is a tough, competent, shrewd politician who has support within the guts of the American electorate-the low income white voters...
Drunken Pretzel. As an analyst of affluence, Galbraith does not speak from the curious outside. He summers on the family's 247-acre farm near Newfane, Vt., spends part of each winter at a commodious rented chalet in Gstaad, an elegant ski resort in Switzerland. William Buckley, a sometime skiing companion, says that Galbraith looks like "a drunken pretzel" coming down the slopes, but another observer describes his form as "graceful, lordly, solemn even?like Charles de Gaulle going down an escalator...
...becomes possible to find familiar words in plain English. For example, the letters ith appear near the beginning. Guessing that this could stand for with, the analyst assumes that M = w. He tries that idea out in other places where M appears in the ciphertext. Down the line this produces the sequence with-n-nown. This suggests: with unknown, in which case J would equal u, and K would equal...
...chart-covered offices of banks, brokerages and mutual funds, computers constantly scan the stock lists to spot companies or entire industries that appear to be breaking out of their usual earnings pattern. Once an uptrend is noted, word quickly gets around; analysts go to the same meetings, tend to eat at the same places. They constantly talk with each other on local or long-distance phones. Brokerage houses also pass on their research findings to mutual funds and other institutions in hope of landing their enormous commission business. Says an officer of one Boston-based mutual fund: "A stock often...