Word: analysts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spurt in capital investment by the manufacturers and their suppliers for tools, dies, entire new plants. Eventually sales would surge because drivers would feel an increasing need to switch to gas-saving cars. As demand rose, particularly for the most economical vehicles, prices would ride up. Concludes Detroit Auto Analyst Arvid Jouppi: "We are awfully close to the $10,000 small...
...group trying to figure out remedies is the Public Agenda Foundation, started a few years ago by Cyrus Vance and Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich. It is a business-academic think tank that uses Yankelovich's survey methods in six countries, and Gyllenhammar is its European chief. The early studies lead him to suspect that one American in four is distressed about his or her lack of a job or conditions of work. The young among them are increasingly disruptive; the older ones feel discarded, particularly if they have been laid off with some frequency...
...state and federal governments (such government payments make up 60% of Chicago's $1.4 billion annual budget). Chicago's schools began to lose their delicate financial balance after plans unexpectedly fell through last month to borrow $124.6 million by selling financial notes to banks and other investors. Analysts at Moody's Investors Service, which rates the quality of investments like the school board notes, gave the notes only a low, "MIG-4" rating. Reason: the board planned to use some of the money to repay other borrowings, made in 1978. But the board had pledged to repay...
Police claim that the person doing the syndicate's homework on the computer was Jerry Shinkle, 40, a Sandia employee with a doctorate in mechanical engineering. Shinkle, says Lee Hollingsworth, the company's chief computer analyst, "is a very bright young man." FBI agents later found betting information and a copy of the computer code in Shinkle's home. The engineer was fired in November and prosecutors with take his case to a federal grand jury later this month. Possible charges: violations of federal gambling and racketeering statutes...
...blind, Henny, has battled breast cancer for two years without anybody catching on--hence bosoms and neglect. Scooper, never too lucky with the girls, was about to run off to Haiti with his best friend's wife when Mom's illness was uncovered. He met Dierdre through their common analyst, Dr. James. In her apartment, while Henny's on the operating table, they spill out their tribulations and prayers. Their idiocyncrasies, it seems, know no bounds; as well as Dr. James, they share an unquenchable thirst for books. They talk in allusion, carry old volumes everywhere, and make love while...