Word: experts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bridgman, an independent film producer who watched the debate with New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett, pronounced herself "as baffled as before." On Carter: "He skirts around things." But she found Carter more personally appealing. She appreciated the fact that "Ford was a little more direct than Carter." Her expert's judgment of the debate as a visual production? "A bore...
...rebuttals. Former CBS Anchorman Bill Shadel suggests that the candidates be given more time to reply to each other's statements. Says he: "To give a man two or three minutes without allowing a prompt rebuttal invites campaign speeches rather than confrontation." In addition, Ronald Matlon, a debate expert at the University of Massachusetts, recommends that the candidates be allowed to question each other directly...
...theories and pronounced them among the most important he has read; Ford's researchers have pawed through Barber's pages. Barber's text is used in dozens of major universities. He gets calls from broadcasters, reporters, politicians and even mothers-in-law who seek his expert assessments. Barber is deep into an academic study of this election and its participants, and he is pledged to restraint until it is over. Sometimes perched in an old-fashioned barbershop chair he has in his office, he turns away pleadings to rate the men by his scale. But he thinks...
...this African shuttle, Kissinger relied on eight aides. Some-Winston Lord, head of Kissinger's Policy Planning Staff at State, Peter Rodman, a longtime aide, and Larry Eagleburger, Deputy Under Secretary for Management-have been with him almost from the beginning. Another, Harold Saunders, is a Middle East expert whom Kissinger likes to have on hand in case of an emergency...
...group, the teaching group, and the occupational health and safety group illustrate an important difference between SftP and other organizations of activist scientists, which are usually single issue lobbying groups. The Union of Concerned Scientists, for example, is essentially a public interest group limited to doing research and providing expert testimony at government hearings investigating hazards in the nuclear energy industry. In contrast, members of SftP say that their primary concern is to develop a mass consciousness, to convince people that the present system must undergo fundamental change...