Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost" of giving a dollar to Harvard rises from 30 cents to 50 cents. "Studies indicate that charitable givers are very sensitive to the tax price, or cost, of giving, and the changes should have fairly important results for universities." Alan J. Auerbach, assistant professor of Economics and an expert on tax policy, said...
...Moses' death symbolizes another kind of "fall," not only in New York, but in all of America. Robert Moses was an "expert:" he always had the charts and the numbers to prove that his plan was the best--indeed, the only--way to proceed. Moses viewed the word "politician" as an epithet, bespeaking smoke-filled rooms and electoral machines and corruption. "In forty years of public life," he once thundered at a trial of a borough president. "I have never made a deal." For years the description of "above politics" absolved Moses, in the eyes of the public, from...
...cult of the expert, checked solely by conscience--if, indeed, by that--and not by politics, spread far beyond the borders of New York. Though Progressivism made the most political hay of numerical efficiency, the obsession did not die with the movement. Robert McNamara's body counts, and indeed the entire Vietnam experience in this country, probably did more than anything to prove the futility of excessive reliance on the numbers--on the experts. Robert Moses, Doctor Moses, as he liked to be called, had all the numbers, all the plans; the political mud was never slung...
...profits are indeed substantial and have created a kind of gold-rush atmosphere in Ecuador. An investment of $1,200 to $2,000 per acre of shrimp pond could be returned in just six months. Says Joe Fischer, an aquaculture expert brought in from Hawaii by Shayne: "People are racing to get ponds dug, even when they have no idea what they are doing...
Making his playwrighting debut, Kevin Wade, 27, displays a spry, spare way with words. He has a sharp New Yorky eye for character and the ironic vagaries of contemporary man-woman relationships. Key Exchange is tart, funny and tender, with an undertow of the erotic, and the cast is expert and winning...