Word: experts
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...same time, as Trade Expert Clyde Prestowitz argues in his recent book Trading Places, the flight of budding entrepreneurs from large heavily capitalized corporations is wounding the very U.S. companies that are most capable of competing with the sprawling industrial giants of Japan. Even some leading entrepreneurs, mostly those whose brainchildren are now billion-dollar companies, say the start-up craze has gone too far. Gordon Moore, chairman and co-founder of Intel, the chipmaker based in Santa Clara, Calif. (1987 revenues: $1.9 billion), says "vulture capitalists" have lured away some of his best technicians with offers of seed money...
...arrived in the Levant region around 1200 B.C., settling between the Israelite tribes to the east and the Egyptian empire to the south. It was a time of great political ferment. The Hittite empire was crumbling, and Greece was entering into 500 years of decline. Says Hebrew University Philistine Expert Trude Dothan, a co-director of the Ekron dig: "Their culture was a unique product of tradition and innovation in a time of international catastrophe...
Jerusalem refuses to confirm or deny the satellite program. According to several U.S. space experts, a single satellite could give Israel coverage of key sites at least twice daily. On the other hand, the skies in the region are often clogged with dust, and satellites are ineffective in detecting night operations. "I doubt the program is worth the cost," says the Brookings Institution's Paul Stares, an expert on the military uses of space, who puts the price tag for a launch system and satellite at hundreds of millions of dollars. Jerusalem, despite military-budget pressures, has apparently decided otherwise...
...reward: more than $700 million this year in U.S. aid. Secretary of State George Shultz last week called Zia a "great fighter for freedom." Shultz led the U.S. delegation to Zia's Saturday funeral in Islamabad, which was thronged by 200,000 mourners. Robert Oakley, the Near East expert for the National Security Council, has been designated the new U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan...
...system," says Harper's attorney, Barry Langberg. The major reason is cost control. An early court date saves on attorney fees. So does the shorter proceeding that often results from special agreements between the two sides, such as a pact not to challenge the credibility of each other's expert witnesses. The parties can also select a judge with experience relevant to their case, instead of taking the randomly assigned jurists of the public courts...