Word: rand
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...fact, some students of Saudi policy wonder whether the government's motives are really all that altruistic. Saudi Arabia has in the past urged the IMF to grant observer status to the Palestine Liberation Organization, and critics of Saudi foreign policy like Middle East Scholar Rand Fishbein, of Johns Hopkins University, now fear that the Saudis will use their new clout within the fund to force IMF cooperation on the P.L.O. question...
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With her usual authoritarian sweep, Author Ayn Rand strikes a basic blow for her consistent dogma of individualism. Though she is more a cult figure than a popular philosopher, her words mirror an attitude that is becoming more and more common in the U.S., particularly among public figures. Indeed, an increasing number of Americans seem to have concluded that the right to ego implies the duty to exercise it publicly. The result is something of a rout for the time-honored American taboo against tooting one's own horn. Today it is commonplace for Americans to come right...
...News put out its first extra in 33 years, printing 27,000 copies. Large morning papers provided exhaustive coverage the following day, filling in the gaps left by television news. Abroad, the shooting received al most as much coverage as it did in the U.S., with papers like the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa and the Times of London devoting then- entire front pages to the story...
...RAND analyst has observed, however, the counterforce strategy is severely flawed, because it ignores both Soviet perceptions of these U.S. innovations and the fact that the "counterforce balance" is, and will remain, in the United States' favor. The most frightening aspect of the U.S. pursuit of a counterforce capability is the possible Soviet reaction. The deployment of faster, more accurate counterforce weapons may serve only to increase Soviet reliance on a launch on warning concept. Under such a policy, the Soviets would launch their land-based ICBMs at the slightest hint of a U.S. attack for fear of having them...