Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bent and broke under extreme pressure, can stand up to the rigors of the Oval Office. Would his judgment, like his brother's, remain unimpaired through the tension of a Cuban missile crisis? "Can we really trust him if the Russians come over the ice cap?" asked one Washington analyst last week. "Can he make the kind of split-second decisions the astronauts had to make in their landing on the moon? If this becomes a problem for him, some of the stuff he admitted about his behavior could be brought back and used against him." One sick joke already...
...large part of the equation. Indeed, the political mood of 1969 defies traditional definition. Yet one thing is clear: millions of Americans are prepared to vote their fear and anger rather than their hope and compassion. The words "law and order" have become an irresistible incantation, and what Political Analyst Richard Scammon calls the "anti-dissent dissent" is, for the moment, the strongest political force in the country...
...Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. Each investigator, he said, is "locked in" to thinking of pain in his own terms. Thus the psychologist views it as a basic, elementary sensation like sight or hearing. To the psychiatrist, it is an affect or emotion, like depression or anxiety; to the analyst, the product of an internal psychic conflict; to the neurologist or neurosurgeon, a pattern of neurophysiological activity. The biologist emphasizes its survival value. The existential philosopher, Frederik J. J. Buytendijk, regards pain as a potentially character-building phenomenon that unites an individual with the rest of humanity in its existential...
...their way to woo Negroes, but he disdains sinecures. "I want to join a company that is going to get its investment out of me -not just fulfill its commitment to the Equal Opportunity Act." Having rejected many other offers, he will return to Del Monte as a financial analyst...
Overruns and Cutbacks. The C-5A, at 728,000 Ibs. the world's largest aircraft, has been under intense scrutiny since a Pentagon cost analyst in January leaked reports of ballooning expenses. Rather grudgingly, the Air Force and other sources revealed that the procurement bill had climbed from an anticipated $3.5 billion for 115 of the planes to $4.4 billion for 120 of them. Congressional critics charge that the "overrun" resulted mostly from Lockheed's attempt to win the contract by making an unrealistically...