Word: analyst
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...Shopping List. What is a whiz kid? Well, by definition he is young and bright. The tools of his Pentagon trade are a piece of chalk, a blackboard on which to slash equations, and a computing machine. Dispassionate, cold analysis is his business, and Systems Analyst Enthoven has no peer. His analysis of the workings of the Pentagon goes as follows: "I think it can best be described as a continuing dialogue between the policymaker and the systems analyst, in which the policymaker [McNamara] asks for alternative solutions to his problems, while the analyst attempts to clarify the conceptual framework...
...Commons for the way he had called in outside help to prepare his budget. Despite the usual strict rules on budget secrecy, he had help from three private businessmen-Martin O'Connell, a specialist in municipal finance, Geoffry R. Conway, a tax accountant, and David Stanley, an investment analyst. Opposition sharpshooters pounced on this indiscretion...
...London's demimonde make continental capitals seem parochial. Until recent years, it was impossible to go to dinner at London's most fashionable clubs or private houses without passing swarms of well-turned-out and sometimes handsome streetwalkers standing guard on the sidewalk. Like many another foreign analyst of Anglo-Saxon attitudes, French Diarist Hippolyte Taine, visiting London in the mid 19th century, could not comprehend how the English could sustain the "vehemence and pungency of their passions" against "the harsh, though silent, grinding of their moral machinery...
...done before him. But they insist that he lacks "heart," has lowered service morale by his treatment of military leaders, relies too heavily on the advice of his civilian "whiz kid" aides and ignores the service professionals. Among the most outspoken critics: > Hanson W. Baldwin, veteran military affairs analyst of the New York Times, lit into McNamara last March in a Saturday Evening Post article under the bitter title: "The McNamara Monarchy. " Wrote Baldwin: "The 'unification' of the armed services sponsored by McNamara poses some subtle and insidious dangers-creeping dangers . . . that could present, in their ultimate form...
Eckstein is a specialist on public finance and a consultant to the President's Council of Economic Advisers, the Treasury Department, and the Rand Corporation. Hoffmann is an analyst of international relations and a specialist in French government...