Word: analyst
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Darman the farsighted analyst has known for eight years about the urgent need for expensive repairs to the country's economic foundations. Darman the ace operative has sometimes papered over that need to serve his President's or his candidate's political purposes. He is widely suspected of secretly itching to impose a tax increase. After denying that vehemently -- though not altogether persuasively -- he produced an innovative budget plan that appears to reduce the deficit with negligible pain...
President Bush promised during the election campaign to extend the VRAs when they expire next fall, but steel buyers like Caterpillar complain that prolonging the VRAs will boost costs. According to industry analyst Peter Marcus of PaineWebber, steel prices have risen 6% since early 1988, to $509 a $ ton, although after adjustment for inflation, they remain $40 less than five years ago. Critics are also concerned that a new set of VRAs will bring back Big Steel's complacency...
...curtailing the animosity that made such military spending necessary, the two nations can put those resources to better, domestic use. Though they have something to offer each other in bilateral trade, sales of tangible goods may be less important than another exchange: strategies for reform. Says a Chinese analyst: "Beijing needs to push its stalled political reforms and Moscow needs to produce results in economic reform. Both sides are interested in what the other is doing...
Washington officials responded to the news of Stroessner's political demise with little optimism. Despite some appealing rhetoric, few believe Rodriguez will institute democratic reform. "Most likely, it's going to be more of the same," said a senior military analyst. The anti-Communist Stroessner has long been one of Washington's staunchest backers. But his dismal record on human rights compelled successive U.S. Administrations to denounce Stroessner as a dictator...
...Rodriguez's rhetoric pledging "the initiation of democratization." But while Rodriguez is popular with his troops, his lengthy association with Stroessner casts doubt on his claims. His style of high living is attributed to heavy involvement in Paraguay's large-scale smuggling and drug trade. As a U.S. intelligence analyst put it, "He's been a 30-year intimate of the old man. He's not going to reinvent the wheel...