Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crucial to progress toward a broader peace is help from Saudi Arabia and Jordan. James Noyes, a Saudi affairs expert at Berkeley's Institute of International Studies, observes that Saudi Arabia is in "an exquisite dilemma. It has to support Sadat but condemn him at the same time." Without help, Sadat could fall, throwing the future role of Egypt into confusion...
...espionage scandal. In the past two weeks, six West German secretaries of high-ranking officials have been accused of spying for East Germany. The most recent suspect is Helga Rödiger, 44, who worked for Manfred Lahnstein, state secretary in the Finance Ministry and Bonn's top expert on monetary affairs. Last week, after she failed to show up for work, agents of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI, discovered that she had fled with all her belongings-as well as those of her live-in boyfriend, Robert Kresse...
...would have to spend 12% of its national wealth on capital investment every year through 1979. Private economists have put the necessary figure as high as 16%. The nation has not even come close. Instead, it has spent in the range of 9.5% to 10%. By most expert estimates, the accumulated need for capital projects-factories, machines, transport systems, energy development-exceeds $200 billion...
Henry Bloch, 56, president, H & R Block of Kansas City. He invests in tax-free municipal bonds, as befits a tax expert in the lofty 70% bracket. Bloch points out that munis are safe, and enormously liquid, and they can be bought in denominations...
...board's decision was reached only after hearings in eleven cities, where testimony was taken on the moral issues from 197 witnesses-ordinary citizens as well as noted scientists and clergymen. The most negative expert, Protestant Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey, saw an "irremovable possibility" that physical or psychological damage might be inflicted on IVF children. A number of scientists, though not against IVF, felt that more research with nonhuman embryos was necessary. So far only a handful of IVF studies has been done with higher primates...