Word: analyst
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...fluent in Chinese, spent his summer interviewing foreign and domestic journalists, talking to government officials and academics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Adams House resident knew that he would do his thesis on China after he spent a year in China working as a market analyst for IBM and Altman...
Paradoxically enough, the price of the personal writers is still too high to attract the occasional wordsmith. Predicts Andy Bose, an analyst at the Manhattan-based Link Resources market-research firm: "Personal writers are not going to become mass-market items until prices drop to around $400." But that may not take long. Amstrad recently reduced the price of its model from $799 to $499, and Magnavox is currently offering a $200 rebate on purchases of its $700 Videowriter. If personal writers prove to be like other new products in the fast-paced consumer electronics industry, prices will continue...
...population. The main target: the De la Madrid government, synonymous in the minds of most Mexicans with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico without interruption for 58 years. Party officials were said to be stunned by the size and force of the student movement. Says Political Analyst Adolfo Aguilar Zinser: "There's no way of knowing what will set the people off. The government can squeeze salaries, raise prices, cut services, cheat in elections, and nothing happens. Suddenly they've got a real movement questioning their authority to make decisions the way they...
...cutthroat competition for good jobs, possibly even without as much crime. But the labor force, which will grow at a slower pace, may also find itself without the ability to sustain U.S. economic expansion or support an increasingly elderly population. "Business is going to be discombobulated," says Demographics Analyst Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute. "I see the housing industry tearing its hair out. I see problems in the military. I see enormous problems headed this way with Social Security and retirement...
With less talent available for corporations to choose from, employers may offer larger salaries and more responsibility to promising college graduates. Ambitious baby-bust workers could find the path to promotion a little less crowded than it has been for baby boomers. Says Peter Morrison, a population analyst at the Rand Corp.: "Baby busters will in general have more of a choice ((in the job market)) and better prospects for advancement than the previous generation...