Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union, which is a standing assignment for U.S. and NATO armies. "Our land forces must shift from the Maginot Line mentality to maneuver warfare," he argues. "Our Army should be more like the Marines." Hart would try to change military thinking by rewarding and advancing officers who are expert in tactics and innovation, not program managers. "We've got to outsmart the enemy," says the Senator, who was shocked to discover that the academies have virtually squeezed out the required study of military history and tactics in favor of the social and political sciences...
...back and enjoy yourselves as much as possible." Slaton even urged the jurors to show sympathy for the state's witnesses, warning about the sly tactics of the chief defense trial lawyer, Alvin Binder, 52, a white attorney from Mississippi. "Mr. Binder has a national reputation as an expert in cross examination . . . put yourselves in their place...
...ahead with investment programs. Yet Greenspan feared that any dramatic new shock to the economy, such as an unexpected bankruptcy of a major European bank, triggered by a Polish default on its loans, could easily lead to widespread cancellations of business spending plans. But Robert Triffin, an international monetary expert, doubted that if Poland renounced its foreign debts, such action would lead to a collapse in banking around the world...
...there is one international musical figure who can truly be described as protean, it is Pierre Boulez. The former enfant terrible of French composers, who combines a brilliant mathematical mind with an expert musical ear, Boulez has been the chief theoretician of the postwar serialist movement. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, he introduced audiences to unfamiliar repertory by familiar composers like Liszt, and startled them with lucid, penetrating readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that...
...most analysts feel that Gaddafi is not a Soviet pawn. He has refused to allow the U.S.S.R. to have a military base in his country. "I suspect that the Soviets are in no better position to understand Gaddafi than the Americans or the Europeans," says an Israeli intelligence expert...