Word: know-how
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...pick up metal filings. When the U.S. sent young scholars to Moscow to study Slavic languages, the Soviets exchanged "graduate students" who were often middle-age technocrats with a more than academic interest in microcircuitry. A huge truck factory built in the Soviet Kama region with U.S. financing and know-how, all acquired aboveboard, was put to work making the army transports that now convoy Soviet troops over the Afghanistan countryside. Far worse, grinding machines that can craft tiny ballbearings, legally sold to the Soviets by a small Vermont company in 1972, have in the estimate of U.S. intelligence experts...
Wall Street analysts are often critical of corporate mergers because they mismatch corporate talent and know-how. But they were enthusiastic about the new Allied Signal, especially since Hennessy plans to sell some of the less profitable divisions in order to concentrate on aerospace. As the core business of both Allied and Signal, that group is expected to contribute more than 40% of total profits. After the planned divestitures, Allied Signal should have some $2.5 billion in cash on hand. "This is uncommon," says Frank Prezelski, an analyst at Shearson Lehman American Express. "The typical acquisition leaves the combined company...
...railroad schedules. But by the 1970s it had expanded its product range to include business cards, hotel directories and contest tickets. Says Dittler Chairman Gilbert Bachman: "We had already produced literally billions of promotional game tickets for other companies, so it was just a matter of taking our know-how and applying it to the instant lottery ticket concept...
...past expressions of support for anti-American terrorists in the Middle East, Iran was not likely to besmirch its image by staging a daring raid to rescue American and Kuwaiti hostages. Even if Tehran had the political will to challenge the militants, it probably lacked the military know-how to carry off such a risky mission without endangering the lives of all the hostages on board. And without the direct cooperation of Iranian officials, no outside power was likely to intervene to end the deadlock by military means. In an effort to pin the blame on Kuwait, Iranian radio reported...
...calm Voice of the Administration, exuding almost 350 years of Harvard know-how, belies the confusion and proliferation of courses, students, and teachers that is the summer school these days. Derek Bok tells us Harvard is changing--that its vital task in the coming years will be to learn how to deal with this proliferation of nontraditional students, who come not only in the summertime, but at night and for short courses and for mid-career programs...