Word: research
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largely to the diligence of Robert A. Caro, the biographer and political historian who has made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well...
...difficult to understand why things American are close to the center of young Japanese dreams. "America is equated with freedom, openness, wide spaces," says Hikaru Hayashi, senior research director of Hakuhodo Institute of Life & Living, a research arm of one of Japan's largest advertising companies. "Sharing in America can release Japanese teenagers from the restraints they live with every day. Through fashion, they can capture a bit of the life-style they can never hope to live...
Ford has promised Jaguar's officials a large degree of freedom in running the company. Even so, John Lawson, a London-based analyst for Nomura Research Institute, predicts that Ford will have to invest an additional $1.5 billion to improve Jaguar's production, which would bring the total investment to $4 billion. "That is going to be very hard for Ford to recover in the marketplace," Lawson warns. But then, status symbols seldom come cheap...
Lovelock and Margulis have modified the theory over the years to address scientists' criticism that Gaia implied that the earth acted with a sense of purpose. In its newest form, Gaia has inspired a flood of research into the interaction between living systems and the atmosphere, earth and oceans. At the first major scientific conference on Gaia, sponsored by the American Geophysical Union in 1988, the austere group of scientists ended their meeting by giving Lovelock an exuberant standing ovation...
Marshal Goldman, associate director of theRussian Research Center, said that the events inEast Germany will create a "domino effect" ofinstability that will eventually reach the SovietUnion itself...