Word: analysts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson draws the ire of Biblical Scoreboard because he is "anti-military superiority," anti-Star Wars, and he's a liberal. Quoting an unnamed political analyst, Biblical Scoreboard says Jackson would be "the first Marxist President of the United States...
...will they? "Iran and Iraq might surprise everyone and agree to keep a lid on production," cautions Peter Beutel, an oil-market analyst for the Manhattan commodities firm Elders Futures, Inc. Another variable is Saudi Arabia's strategy, says G. Henry Schuler, an energy specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Schuler points out that in 1987, when oil sold for $20 per bbl., Riyadh increased its production to drive down the price and deprive Iran of its war chest. "But once the war is over, then the Saudis don't have any reason to keep...
...reasoning had emerged on previous occasions. Tehran has long complained about U.S. warships' protecting gulf shipping from Iranian attack. Iran has accused Washington, correctly, of providing military intelligence to Iraq and more recently charged, altogether incorrectly, that U.S. troops helped reclaim the Fao peninsula. Says a U.S. military analyst: "Iran needed a fall...
...with prolonged jockeying for position by, among others, Rafsanjani and Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, Khomeini's designated successor. Iranian leaders may have realized that the old man alone possessed the power to extricate Iran from the war. "It was vital for Khomeini to move now," said a U.S. intelligence analyst. "After his death, there would be nobody with the authority to pull...
...profits dropped 55%, to $36 million. Now the company faces a new problem: Carlucci intends to end funding for Grumman's A6 Navy bomber, which accounted for 15% of last year's pretax profits. "If any company in defense is vulnerable, it is Grumman," says Paul Nisbet, an industry analyst with the Prudential-Bache investment firm...