Word: analysts
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Shucking academe for the real thing, Volcker signed on as an economist with the New York branch of the Federal Reserve. After five years, Volcker jumped into private enterprise at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Five more years and he became chief financial analyst at the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C., a remarkable achievement...
...December 1978, Viet Nam invaded Cambodia, swiftly managed to depose Pol Pot and installed Samrin as President. In fierce fighting against the surviving Khmer Rouge cadres, food became a military weapon on both sides. Explained a Western military analyst in Bangkok last week: "If you can't grow food, you can't eat, and if you can't eat, you can't fight." Rice crops have been destroyed and planting new fields has become dangerous. Pol Pot's forces harass farmers in areas controlled by Viet Nam, while the Vietnamese do their best to prevent...
...Government has also begun to recognize its responsibility for the low level of innovation. "Whether intended or not, the Government is inevitably involved in today's innovative process," concedes Richard A. Meserve, policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In the past three years President Carter has shifted the balance of federal R. and D. spending, which this year will total $30 billion, toward basic research. Carter this month will also present the results of a 20-month Commerce Department study on innovation. Presidential recommendations are expected to include modifications of patent and antitrust...
Nevertheless, Arledge and his analysts may have overestimated how much the other networks were willing to pay. Both CBS and NBC refused to say what they had offered the International Olympic Committee, holder of the TV rights, but their bids were probably under $200 million. One analyst reckoned that ABC might eventually lose up to $50 million...
...office he always seemed to be at center stage: the brilliant foreign affairs analyst who never shrank from controversy, the peripatetic statesman who was forever soaring off to distant capitals on secret missions that, when revealed, sent seismic shocks through chancelleries around the world. Even out of power, he remains the subject of intense interest: heads of state seek his counsel, his support on issues is solicited, he is deferred to?even feared?as if he still strode the corridors of the White House and State Department. During his eight years as Richard Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs...