Word: experts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Jimmy Carter and his chief diplomatic aides, for they were preparing to welcome Gromyko to Washington over the weekend for what might prove to be an important new phase of the Carter Administration's 18-month preoccupation with SALT II negotiations. Gromyko is by now a matchless expert in the technicalities of strategic arms, and there is no real replacement for him on the Soviet side. "If his illness had been any worse," said one vastly relieved U.S. diplomat, "we could have kissed SALT goodbye for another six months...
...piped over the border. The Russians have craftily installed the meters on their side and pay for the gas at about one-third the world price by bartering low-grade gasoline. New proposals are being discussed to exploit huge Afghan copper and fluorite deposits on terms that one international expert likens to those for Cuban sugar; such deals could tie Afghanistan irrevocably to the Soviet Union...
...consulting firm in Washington, thinks the rate may come down a point or so next year, but he is the board's optimist. Sprinkel believes inflation may actually worsen a little next year; the others see little or no change. And inflation will keep the dollar in trouble; Monetary Expert Robert Triffin thinks it may steady in the next six months, but plunge again...
...when she was an IBM vice president for communications and Government relations. She worked with Silverman, who was then at CBS, in handling IBM's debut as a television sponsor. "They complement each another," says M.S. Rukeyser Jr., an NBC executive vice president. "She's an expert in things like Government relations that he doesn't know very much about." An other intriguing question will be whether Pfeiffer's marriage will become a duet of corporate chiefs. Her husband, Ralph, 51, senior vice president and chief executive in charge of IBM's operations...
...years ago. Thus the only Haya who could recall details of the steelmaking process were very old, and as Schmidt and Avery write, this knowledge was "threatened every day by the passage of time, by death and by age-related infirmities occurring in this quickly shrinking group of expert smelters...