Word: analysts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he credits Vann with saving the Saigon regime from collapse, not once but twice: after the 1968 Tet offensive and again in 1972. Nevertheless, in Sheehan's characterization Vann emerges as a personality to rival the most complex creations of fiction. He was a brave soldier, a brilliant analyst, a born maverick and a savvy political infighter. He was also, as Sheehan eventually learned, a shameless hypocrite with a "secret vice" he could not or would not control. To Sheehan, who worked as a young wire-service reporter in Viet Nam and went on to obtain the Pentagon papers...
...advertisers. "I think we've got a long way to go before the house of cards collapses," says Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates. "On any given night, with any given show, they have the ability to attract a predominant share of the TV audience." Alan Gottesman, media analyst at Paine Webber, asserts, "The next thing you will hear will be the turning of the worm. There is an operating cycle of about two years in this business. Each network has gone through a semicataclysmic change in management. If you add two years to that, you come to the bottom...
...market-oriented direction that the economy is taking but it also underscores the leadership's inability to force the middle levels of the party bureaucracy to administer the reforms. Referring to the pragmatic Zhao's victory over conservatives in winning the party leadership a year ago, a Western economic analyst summed up, "The leaders confused the fact that they no longer had political opposition with the illusion that the country was ready for such fundamental reforms...
...Fifty years from now people will think of drinking ground water like we think of drinking water out of the Charles," said Stephen J. LeBlanc, environmental policy analyst for the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), which supported the referendum campaign two years ago. "We've got to get the sites cleaned...
...than before. At the same time, the Environmental Green Party captured an impressive 20 seats to become the first new party to break into Sweden's parliament since 1917. The ruling party clearly benefited from Sweden's current economic prosperity. Said Gothenburg University professor Soren Holmberg, a leading election analyst: "Swedes voted with their wallets this year...