Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defense Expert Bruce Blair's study of the hypersensitive command, control and communications system that would be involved in a nuclear war was a success. Too much of a success. As soon as Pentagon officials read the report, which had been commissioned by Congress's Office of Technology Assessment, they upgraded it to a supersecret clearance level known as siop-esi (Single Integrated Operation Plan--Extremely Sensitive Information). Only the President and a few top Defense officials are now permitted to see the paper. The classification is so restricted that even Author Blair, who is cleared for top-secret material...
Yale's next president, Benno C. Schmidt Jr. is not only an expert on constitutional law, he also seems to be an expert on Woody Allen's sperm...
...seemed to make sense when a committee that is chaired by Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 and controls Harvard's $1 million South Africa aid fund, viewed Heimert as the expert on South African education and sent him there in November to publicize the internship program...
...long ago, Georgi Arbatov, the Soviet Union's top expert on America, buttonholed Brown and indicated that the U.S.S.R. might bring out a Russian- language version of State of the World. Arbatov chortled that when he got his copy last year, his son, a scholar, swiped it for use in his studies. That's encouraging. State of the World has become a text in 170 American colleges and universities. The kids may understand something their fathers never...
...rings, already suspect, were spotlighted early in the week when the Times printed details of memos leaked by an unnamed solid-fuel rocket expert. One document, written last July by Richard Cook, an agency budget analyst, noted that booster O rings had shown signs of charring on previous missions and could lead to a "catastrophic" situation...