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Analyzing the complex ups and downs of the U.S. economy can be tricky business, requiring an expert's eye for detail and a generalist's feel for broad trends. Senior Editor George Taber, who has headed TIME'S Economy & Business section since last fall, draws weekly on a variety of resources to assist him in this difficult task, not the least of which is his own experience in the field. A former American press spokesman for the Commission of the European Community in Brussels, Taber frequently covered business news as a TIME correspondent in Paris and went...
...state-by-state action has its limits in policing product safety. Says Texas Consumer Protection Director David Bragg: "The expert time, the tests and the lab procedures required are far too expensive for most states to take on. The Firestone 500 case [in which 7.5 million radial tires were recalled for defects] is an example of an action too big for state government to handle." Roberta Lynch, who helped lead an unsuccessful fight in the Illinois legislature for a workplace chemical warning regulation similar to the national rule canceled by OSHA, agrees that states can play only a selective role...
...director of the University's public relations office, Lord is responsible for creating a positive image of Harvard: wise, but not overbearing; worldly, but not mercenary. Often her job is simple; 40 to 50 reporters call her each week, eager to quote a Harvard expert on the nature of some truth or another. But every so often someone asks about 1969, or about racism, or about investments in South Africa. "Expectations of Harvard's infallibility are just like Gatsby's problem," says Lord, recalling the F. Scott Fitzgerald lecture she used when she taught Expos here. "When Gatsby finally came...
Marriage--to a Lawrence girl he'd known since first grade--and then the Second World War interrupted Kelleher's scholarly career. After a stint in the quartermaster corps, he was assigned to the Pentagon and military intelligence, which thought it needed an expert in Ireland. "They soon decided they didn't, and so I was switched to the Korea desk. I comforted myself with the thought that Korea must be the Ireland of Asia," he says...
...intelligence sources, similarly, do not believe that the Mujahedin enjoy sufficient popular support to take over. "They can obviously disrupt and terrorize, but whether they have an alternative program and leadership to offer is far from clear," says one expert. Washington, in any event, has no illusions about its ability to influence events in Iran. "We have an interest in Iran as a buffer to Soviet expansion," an Administration official explains. "But at this point, all we can do is sit back and wait to see what happens." Although Moscow has consistently supported Khomeini, the Soviets are in a similar...