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...other hand, it is clear that the economy, as well as businesses by the tens of thousands, would suffer jolts aplenty if protracted and real chaos wrecked the smooth functioning of commercial aviation throughout the U.S. Says Robert Joedicke, an airlines industry expert with New York City's Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment-banking firm: "Air transport is the nation's only basic means of transportation beyond 500 miles. Without air transport, you absolutely hamstring the economy." Just how much it is hamstrung will depend on the duration of the turmoil in the skies...
...them like the Thematic Apperception Test, in which viewers reveal personality patterns by constructing stories from a series of pictures. Instead he uses the images as an emotional icebreaker: "The initial response gives me cues about where to go from there." But Canadian Psychologist Paul Lerner, an expert on the Rorschach method believes Walker's approach may very well become a new diagnostic tool for assessing personality. "Like the Rorschach," Lerner says, "it could be used to show what aspect the patient pays attention to and what he ignores...
...central figure in the drama was the increasingly crusty Goldwater, who considers himself the Senate's leading expert on intelligence. The venerable (72) Arizona Republican was miffed when the Reagan transition team failed to consult him last January on who should head the CIA. He did not like the choice of Casey, a wily and tough Washington operator, to direct the agency. Casey made matters worse by virtually ignoring both Goldwater's committee and the House Intelligence Committee, which take their duties to oversee the CIA seriously. He even curtailed the CIA's congressional liaison staff...
...long development time and the potential for failure help explain why venture capital funds have had little appeal for small investors. Although the public can buy about two dozen venture capital mutual funds, these have not been popular. Says industry expert Stanley Pratt: "People should not expect these new companies to grow like weeds. It will take a long time for an investment to mature." Pratt advises the small investor who is interested in such firms to buy their shares after the new companies make their first public offering...
Pizza Time Theater Inc. is the creation of Nolan Bushnell, 38, a microelectronics expert. In 1972 Bushnell founded the successful Atari electronic games company with a $500 initial investment. Four years later, he sold out to Warner Communications, ending up with $15 million in cash and debentures, and took the post of chairman of his company, which became a new Warner subsidiary. Since then, Atari has broadened from electronic games to personal computers. Bushnell had been working on the Pizza Time concept at Atari; but before the first of the computerized robots, a wisecracking rat named Chuck E. Cheese, emerged...