Word: know-how
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Roosevelt has run a low-key campaign against Joseph P. Kennedy II. The front-runner, Kennedy has one good deed--Citizens Energy Corporation--and one good name to his credit. But he lacks the experience and the know-how to get anything accomplished...
Commerce is the driving force. The ads in Italy's Corriere della Sera for just one day included the words personnel, administrator, quality audit, contract manager and know-how. Germans routinely refer to their employer as der Boss, who is expected to be a good Manager. "American English is definitely the model, not English--this is what we see looking through French advertising," says Micheline Faure, organizing secretary of a Paris group called AGULF, which was formed to resist the linguistic invasion. Japanese ads, posters and shopping bags are full of a special kind of American English, often starting with...
...problem was located: a joint on one of Challenger's two solid rocket boosters had failed. But the root cause of the tragedy ran deeper. A presidential commission, headed by former Secretary of State William Rogers, discovered NASA itself was deeply flawed. Far from representing the best of American know-how, the twelve-member commission found, NASA had become a bureaucracy that had lost its way. Before the first shuttle was launched, the agency had known of the fatal seal problem but had buried it under a blizzard of paper while permitting schedule-conscious managers to keep the orbiters flying...
...Great of Russia set out on one of history's most momentous vacations. The towering (6 ft. 7 in.), charismatic monarch became the first Czar ever to venture peacefully outside his country, traveling for 18 months to the major capitals of Western Europe. He absorbed Western ideas and technological know-how and returned to guide Russia into the modern world...
...what can be classified. But this week, the Department of Defense escalated its attack on open scientific research. In a 34-page report entitled "The Soviet Acquisition of Militarily Significant Western Technology: An Update," the Pentagon said virtually every Soviet military project made use of available, published Western know-how. It also said that Harvard astrophysics and engineering research had been "targeted for acquisition" and that, horror of horrors, more applications by Soviet scientists to visit Harvard were filed in the early 1980's than for any other school except MIT. It did not say what the nine who actually...