Word: analysts
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Allen's private life is a taboo, reserved for the absent analyst, though the films are about him and intend us to imagine his complex 'interiority.' He's quite unable to imagine other people fully, as sufferers through the unspeakable Interiors will know. In Manhattan, though, he winningly has his ex-wife write about his obsessive narcissism, and the end of that film seems to me truer than anything he's done yet. Exactly because it's about the limitations of the Woody Allen persona, and the possibility that Mariel Hemingway stands for something different and better, that he ought...
...deterrence. Says a leading British official: "The reason for NATO modernizing its nuclear forces is that we have to fill a position between the tactical Lance missile [a short-range mobile missile] and the big bang. We cannot make counterthreats credible without theater nuclear weapons." Notes American Defense Analyst Gregory Treverton of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "It is important to remember that deterrence is a combination of will and weaponry. Weapons do make a difference. NATO has to become more confident at a lower level of deterrence rather than at a higher level...
...choice of Nevin, the Times reported, "surprised many business analysts," though none are named. "They said he resigned last month as Zenith's chairman and chief executive officer under somewhat cloudy circumstances." Meaning what? "Observers of Zenith" (these same "many" unnamed analysts, presumably) "said Mr. Nevin had probably been asked to step down because the programs he introduced did not lead to the earnings gains many people had hoped for. Zenith, however, said that his decision to leave had been entirely his own." To make plain where the reporter's suspicions really lie, the Times caps the argument...
...elections also represent a government effort to "promote a greater sense of participation" and generate popular enthusiasm for its modernization program, the State Department analyst said...
...plugs into any TV set and flashes information on the screen. It can be programmed by anyone familiar with BASIC, the simplest computer language, to do income taxes, balance a checkbook, record recipes, update the Christmas-card mailing list and play chess and backgammon. Benjamin Rosen, a Manhattan investment analyst, relies on his Apple for evaluating securities portfolios and doing cash-flow projections...