Word: experts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprisingly, the Israeli government has shown little enthusiasm for Zayad and his gadfly coalition of Communists, Christians and Moslems. "When he was elected, we said to ourselves that we would just have to make the best of it," says Shmuel Toledano, the Israeli government's chief expert on local Arab affairs. "Our assessment of Nazareth, after nine months of Zayad, is that things are no better today than they were before...
...occasional stevedore on the Dieppe piers, a drifter, a petty thief, he drank heavily, and then would get into fights. He was even known as "Judoka," the judo expert, because of his brawling...
...killed 27 people and felled 128 others at the American Legion's Philadelphia convention in late July (TIME cover, Aug. 16). They have largely excluded all the seemingly probable causes (mostly microbes), and are moving on to an apparently almost limitless number of esoteric possibilities. Last week, as expert laboratory scientists and technicians in Philadelphia and at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta concentrated on chemical toxins as suspects, no one could yet offer a plausible let alone provable explanation...
Given the confusion over profits, it is questionable whether the U.S. can actually arrive at such a solution. While there is a need for greater understanding about the beneficial role of profits, there is also a need for clearer reporting of corporate income. As Management Expert Peter Drucker has pointed out, the three main measures used by corporations today-gross and net income plus earnings per share-are far too superficial. A much more analytical system is required that would relate the firm's performance to more telling indicators, such as the return on invested capital, competitive strength...
...about for some interesting stories about the early days of Plains and the economic impact of Carter's candidacy on the little hamlet, plus such lightweight footnotes as the candidate's appearances in Sunday school, his attendance at a Carter clan reunion and his pitching performances (fairly expert) in a series of Softball games organized by CBS-TV Producer Rick Kaplan. An unremarkable sermon on the nature of sin by the pastor of the Plains Baptist Church has been covered and grudgingly reported by the wire services. Says a correspondent for a major Northern daily: "I keep telling...