Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think tanks is less than what the public imagines Rather, they deal with communication and information handling. Efficiency questions compose more than one half of the work. The best analysts, though, tend to turn efficiency questions into effectiveness questions. Instead of trying to find the cheapest solution to a client's problem, analysts are beginning to recommend the outlays of larger amounts of time and-or money in order to reach ends determined not by cheapness but by results. Methodology, studying the principles of procedure, and the exploration of different theories--both political and scientific--are possible only within...
...think tanks produce their products? The old answer involves putting several specialists into a closed environment to review the client's problem, gather and analyze the date, and produce a concise conclusion. The specialists work under a clearly defined division of functions and perform the analysis, leaving the decision-making to the client...
...necessary to unite both the clients and the researchers in analysis and implementation. The Center for Community Economic Development, a think tank based in Cambridge, already fuses its staff with the people of the communities it serves. Also, the New York City RAND Institute attempts to draw its municipal clients into the research and to allow the researcher to take part in the implementation of the research. The result is an improved recommendation from the think tank that evolves with the client, insuring a better likelihood of action from a client who is wiser and more competent from his participation...
...RECENT HISTORY of Angola is a microcosm of American corporate penetration. Portugal is a relatively weak client of the Western NATO powers and has been very jealous of her prerogative in her colonies. Until 1961, when the liberation movement in Angola went on the offensive for the first time, the Portuguese refused to allow any foreign investment in the colony. As the Liberation forces grew in strength. Portugal realized that she needed allies, and so began to solicit American capital. Backed up by such corporations as Gulf, and by NATO training and advisers for her army. Portugal is waging...
...Wisconsin upset, the forces of Marshall McLuhan were in disarray. Edmund Muskie's media consultant, Robert Squier, resigned because he was no longer wanted; the candidate pronounced political TV spots an "abomination" and promised not to use them again in the campaign. After his badly mauled client John Lindsay quit the presidential race, Media Wizard, David Garth, confessed that TV is "highly overrated in importance. A multitude of commercials-good, bad or indifferent-will dilute all television influence." Overloaded, the big eye had blurred. The light had failed-at least for some...