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...unfortunate effect of the current fiasco is that Casey's widely recognized revitalization of the CIA is suffering a severe jolt. Casey has hiked the agency's budget by 50% (to an estimated $1 billion) during his six- year tenure. He has markedly improved the quality of the agency's intelligence analyses, partly by creating a better balance between the Company's capabilities in ELINT (electronic intelligence gathering) and HUMINT (human intelligence gathering, meaning spies and informers), which had been given short shrift. Having been a World War II operative for the old Office of Strategic Services...
...months, health professionals have meticulously tested every pint of blood in the nation's reserves for the AIDS virus. The hugely successful effort, which costs more than $50 million annually, has rendered negligible a once ominous threat to recipients of blood transfusions. But the convention proceedings got a jolt when Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute informed the assembly that an AIDS virus called LAV-II, whose presence in two West Africans was announced last spring, has now been found in Western Europe. According to Montagnier, LAV-II does not necessarily show up in screening procedures for the original...
...fanfare on Madison Avenue was deafening last spring when the two largest advertising mergers in history were announced within two weeks of each other. The power of the newly created superagencies and the vast riches that changed hands in the transactions stunned the ad industry for weeks. The first jolt was the three-way agreement in April to merge the sixth largest U.S. agency, BBDO International, with Doyle Dane Bernbach Group (No. 12) and Needham Harper Worldwide (No. 16). Their combined annual billings of $5 billion made the new agency, now called Omnicom Group, the world's biggest...
That Reagan may have wandered farther into his golden vision of a world without nuclear weapons and Gorbachev misunderstood is likely. The President has done this on other occasions in the past. That his mind would have caught up soon, even without the jolt he got on SDI, is also likely. Certainly the world's nervous kibitzers would have pulled up short -- and have...
...week. Rasheed is the Miami shopkeeper who became the focus of nationwide publicity last month after a booby trap in his store killed a would-be robber. He claimed that he thought his trap -- a pair of metal grates attached to an outlet by an extension cord -- would merely jolt intruders, not execute them. "I don't know the first thing about electrical wiring," Rasheed insists...