Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's presidential bid by a onetime movie star may be only the beginning. According to Dustin Hoffman, actor and amateur political analyst, the race of the future will feature two American screen idols: blond, squeaky clean Robert Redford and dark, smoldering Warren Beatty. Just imagine the television campaign commercials with that kind of talent! So far, prospects for the race look good. Like most future contenders, Redford immediately pooh-poohed the idea of running, injecting just the proper note of ambiguity. "I don't like myself in that role," he insisted, though he has already rehearsed...
...that reliance on good people is the only way the President can do his own job well. He has to be a good listener, to be a good analyst of the arguments. And then there is a certain instinctive common sense, good judgment, that is more necessary than almost anything...
Detroit's huge losses were a poignant reminder of the U.S. auto industry's continuing problems with slow sales and tough foreign competitors. Said Automotive Stock Analyst Arvid Jouppi: "The industry is now in a crucial period. The Big Three must stop the bleeding...
...analyst of defense industry stocks before he came to B-School, Carter Dunlap took a pragmatic view of the victory. "Talking to a stock analyst, it's going to mean a lot of money in the stock market very quickly." Between puffs on his stogie, Dunlap predicted "a more favorable environment for the businessman...
...graduate of the University of Michigan, Barnett joined the CIA in 1958 and served as an analyst with U.S. Army intelligence units in South Korea and Washington, D.C. From 1965 to 1967, he worked at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., as a staff officer in the directorate of operations, which ran the agency's worldwide covert activities. In 1967 Barnett was assigned to a diplomatic post in Indonesia, where he was responsible for recruit ing local Soviet officials to spy for the U.S. He quit the agency in 1970 to run an antiques-exporting firm in Indonesia, but apparently...