Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specializes in financial reporting-decided that the best way to improve profits of the S. & P. counseling oper-'ation was to spin it off as a separate firm under bolder management. He turned to Stein, then a partner at Oppenheimer & Co. Stein had earned a reputation as an analyst by his spotting of Syntex, Control Data and semiconductor stocks. Last year he earned more than $1,000,000. At InterCapital, Stein has three friends. The No. 2 man, Arthur Zeikel, 36, moved from Dreyfus Corp., where he was co-manager of the $2.7-billion Dreyfus Fund for the past...
...responsibility is well placed, for Burns is known as a trenchant economic analyst and a man of formidable composure. His powers of concentration are legendary, his manner ineradicably professorial. His pewter grey hair is parted down the middle. His brown eyes squint slightly through rimless glasses. His voice is somewhat reedy, worn to didactic evenness by 40 years of lecturing. "I regard myself primarily as a scholar interested in government," he says, teeth clenching one of the hundred or more pipes he owns...
...Good Lord!" scribbled Alan Eddy in his diary. "Why the heck did I do this?" At the time, Eddy, a systems analyst from Scarsdale, N.Y., was alone in mid-Pacific aboard his 30-ft. ketch Apogee, heaving through heavy seas on a 39,000-mile voyage around the world...
Harold Knapp, a systems analyst who lives in Germantown, Md., was bothered by inconsistencies in the newspaper accounts of a rape case, and undertook his own time-consuming investigation. Largely because of his concern, three men were saved from the gas chamber. In New York City, 250 youthful executives are giving up much of their leisure time to help black and Puerto Rican entrepreneurs open businesses in the slums. In California, James Lorenz, a bright young lawyer, has forsworn a more profitable law practice in order to establish a statewide legal-aid service for Mexican-American farm workers...
...Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor. Other commentators are effervescent or stern, puckish or olympian, earnest or remote. Reasoner comes across as warm, witty and involved not only with the news but with his audience as well. Everything about his face - the grey-white shock of hair, shaggy temples, rugged chin, deep smile lines flanking a spreading nose - seems square, safe and reassuring in a 'chaotic world. His manner brings viewers a message that middle-class values...