Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strange appointment," says Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center. "As it turned out, it was a good appointment. The Soviets wanted to get close to Jimmy Carter and in their mind the business community had contact with Carter. And Watson was with the most important corporation in the United States...
Wall Street economists generally feel that business looks much stronger now than a few months ago. Gary Wenglowski, director of economic research for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, previously predicted that the economy would dip in the first half of 1981. But now he foresees a "less severe slowdown that will not be deep enough or long enough to call a recession." Agrees Roger Birk, chairman of Merrill Lynch, the largest brokerage house: "This is not a recession year; it is a transition year...
Others have also noticed the RRC's changing role. "At one point Soviet scholars didn't want to have anything to do with us--we were supposed to be associated with the CIA," Goldman says. But he adds half-jokingly. "Now they like to come because they know we make policy decisions at our coffee hours...
...Institute. When the two organizations began the project--one of the only field-of-study drives ever attempted--many people expected problems. "Some businesses think the problems between the United States and the Soviet Union are largely caused because the centers have been so critical of the Soviet Union," Goldman says. "No one was quite sure what to expect," he adds...
...members of the center are not entirely happy with this new role. "We don't want to be too dependent on the corporations, and we don't want to be too dependent on the government," Goldman says. "Right now we're a red feather in Harvard's cap--and it may be up to them to keep us there...