Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THAT WILSON'S revival of deterrence among policymakers should go largely unanswered by his colleagues at Harvard and elsewhere is disturbing. Indeed, Wilson seems to have earned his reputation as a crime expert chiefly by default. If enough scholars responded to his frequent excursions into policy circles and the general media, discussion about crime might start to make progress instead of heading into the past...
...tacking duels, Bertrand decided to go off in search of a breeze. Left alone, it was Conner who found the wind-and won, by 1 min. 33 sec. "God smiled on us," said the American skipper, "and we managed things a little better." More to the point, one yachting expert observed (prematurely as it turned out), "Conner does not have accidents." Bertrand filed an official protest when the race ended, claiming the American boat had forced him off course, but after a day of deliberation, an international committee disagreed...
...Management Company itself represents an unconventional form of administration. Most universities "farm out" their endowments to trusted expert brokers, retaining only moderate input on strategy. Harvard also followed this route for several centuries, with State Street Management handling the University's holdings during the terms of Treasurers Paul M. Cabot '21 and George Bennett...
...takes a very different kind of expertise than we have," says the Management Company's real estate expert, Michael Thonis. Cabot describes these fields as "very specialized, labor intensive" areas that require more manpower than Harvard can afford...
Rosovsky, an expert on the Japanese economy, noted that "in these times of sad economic news, it does one good to hear from the one area where some good is happening," added that he hoped he was wrong in failing to see the use of East Asia as a model for the developing nations of the world...