Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science has written an article on Chinese student demonstrations for an upcoming issue of The New Republic. "While there's been a considerable amount of talk about freedom and democracy, what the students mean may be something quite different." The China expert thinks the demonstrations will taper off soon because students are busy studying for their January exams...
...place where you are going to see the system break down first is the commuter airline," says Pete Pedigrew, a captain with Pacific Southwest. Tony Levier, an industry-safety expert, is in agreement. "A lot of these airlines are operating on shoestrings. They may meet the FAA regulations on paper but not in reality." On some commuter flights, both cockpit seats may be occupied by inexperienced officers. That, too, observes John Lauber of NTSB, "can be a lethal combination...
...business has been weakened. During the past two years, as business and residential customers returned their rented AT&T phones to the company in favor of buying their own equipment, often from other suppliers, the firm's rental income declined by some $2 billion. Says Jack Grubman, a telecommunications expert with PaineWebber: "AT&T has not delivered on the promises of divestiture...
...America into a village of common thought, which theoretically ought to enhance a people's power to govern their own destinies. But the ability of other people, specialized people, to control those thoughts has grown with the inventions. Political campaigns are managed not by the candidates but by media experts, who indeed seem expert in determining how the majority thinks and votes. A huge business these days is called public relations, which in fact is concerned with the most private relations of well- trained people with information on social patterns. That enterprise has taken the expansiveness of democracy and honed...
Joseph P. Kalt, an expert on the economics of energy policies, officially became a permanent member of the school's faculty three weeks...