Word: analyst
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Leading the investment charge are such large institutions as pension funds, insurance companies and banks. Individual investors remain skeptical. Says Ralph Bloch, an analyst at Moseley, Hallgarten, Estabrook & Weeden: "The public are disbelievers. They're waiting for a sure sign...
...call from California. For the next hour he and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz discussed how to extricate the Israeli government from an ever thickening diplomatic quagmire. For ten days the Peres Cabinet had sidestepped the implications of the arrest in Washington of Jonathan Pollard, a Navy counterintelligence analyst, on charges of selling top-secret information to Israel. Even as details of Peres' internal investigation of the affair began leaking to the press, the Prime Minister stubbornly refused to comment on the case. When Shultz placed his call to Peres, the Reagan Administration was impatient for at least some...
...controversy swirling around Pollard began last month when co-workers at the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md., reported that the 31-year- old analyst had been taking home highly classified material. When confronted by the FBI, he readily admitted to receiving nearly $50,000 since early 1984 for peddling secrets to Israel. A few days later, Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, drove to the Israeli embassy in Washington, seeking political asylum. The embassy turned them away, and Pollard was promptly arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on charges...
Murdoch will be able to offer a rich storehouse of ready-made programming from the 20th Century-Fox film library, which contains such old properties as the Star Wars movie trilogy, the M*A*S*H series and more recent shows like Trapper John, M.D. Says Analyst Isgur: "The Fox library is wonderful for Murdoch. There's little marginal cost and great profit potential." Gaining access to a film library was a prime reason for another big studio takeover in August, when Cable King Ted Turner bought MGM for $1 billion...
When Samuel Loring Morison, a ship analyst at the U.S. Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., noticed three photos of a Soviet aircraft carrier lying on a colleague's desk, he thought they might be of interest to Jane's Defense Weekly, a British magazine. Morison, a part-time editor of a sister publication, filched the photos, which had been taken by an American KH-11 satellite, clipped the "Secret" markings off the corners and mailed the pictures to London...