Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eurocommunists also misread the pulse of a new generation of voters. While they promoted an agenda of disarmament, peace and democracy, they failed to offer voters a concrete program that would tackle the consumer-oriented concerns of the 1980s, such as inflation and unemployment. Says Pierre Hassner, a French expert on Communist affairs: "The Communist Party has become a party of another era. It's old-fashioned, and that's political suicide...
...Saul Bellow have explored its surprising depths and passions. In their wake Philanthropist Astor, now in her early 80s, slyly subtitles her fourth and best book "a period piece." Actually, it concerns two periods: the year before the Crash and the time after middle age. She is obviously an expert on both. With witty understatement and antic plot, she shows a high social stratum at its apogee. Messages are delivered on silver salvers. A titled Englishwoman seems to have stepped from a Gershwin song, down to the exclamation, " 'S wonderful." Irma's son, rendered useless by the lack...
...forced on Burr by the remaining board members. The insurgents were led by Venture Capitalist William Hambrecht of San Francisco, whose firm raised $23.5 million in the early development of People, and by Charles Phillips, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, People's investment banker. Said an airline-industry expert: "The board has clipped Burr's wings and is now running the show...
...environmentalists warn that the prairie is already deteriorating. Range Management Expert Dick Whetsell can point out areas where cattle have wiped out prairie flowers, including wild indigo and blazing stars, leadplants and horsemint, prairie clover and many species of sunflowers. It is still possible to find big bluestem grass that reaches shoulder-high, but old-timers like former Osage Tribal Council Member Bill Martin remember when the prairie grew "higher than a man riding a horse...
...seismological characteristics of the Soviet Union and on the Soviets' ability to read tremors from U.S. nuclear tests. The project's primary goal, said Archambeau, is to "demonstrate that on-site inspection is feasible and should be no obstacle to a test moratorium." Added M.I.T.'s Kosta Tsipis, an expert on verification: "Scientists are showing that on-scene inspection works. Now it's up to the politicians." Given the convoluted nature of arms control, the hard work lies ahead...