Word: senior
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...bargaining tactic. Said Richard Perle, an aide to Senator Henry Jackson and a stern but widely respected critic of SALT: "The Soviets bargain especially hard at the eleventh hour. They see us as pliant, and they have learned to expect that stonewalling will win further concessions from us." A senior Administration official conceded: "They sensed that we were eager for SALT. And so they introduced additional issues. It's a typical Soviet bargaining tactic...
...around the country. The coalition, which counts 175 Senators and Congressmen among its sponsors, has already lined up 89 special-interest organizations to support its antitreaty drive. Included are the American Federation of Small Business, the Reserve Officers Association, Americans for a Safe Israel and the National Alliance of Senior Citizens. Eventually, the coalition expects to spend $10 million in its efforts to defeat SALT...
...seasoned Washington hand. After graduate study in economics at Michigan State, she was an economist at the Fed, became a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy years and put in a stint at the Bureau of the Budget. She was a senior fellow at Brookings in the early '70s, and just before being tapped for the Fed was chief economist for the House Budget Committee...
...field that would lead to Government work, and economics looked right. She finally earned a Ph.D. in economics after a twelve-year slog of night school at American University. In 1967 she joined the staff of the CEA, then moved to the Joint Economic Committee, where she became the senior economist. She calls herself a "pragmatic liberal...
...nearest man Post-Modernism has to a senior partner is, in fact, the leading American architect of his generation: Philip Cortelyou Johnson. The firm of Johnson-Burgee has become to American architecture what McKim, Mead & White was 80 years before: the voice of authority, flavored with luxury. Johnson's critics see him as a brilliant opportunist capable of adapting to any regime of taste: in effect, the Anastas Mikoyan of architectural ideology. Certainly Johnson has, with dazzling skill, traversed the whole range of 20th century manners: from the idealistic severities of the International Style (whose name, as an architecture critic...