Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan was asked if he was sure Bert was the model budget man Carter thought him to be. Jordan nearly choked on his bottle of Tab. He looked at the questioner as if his own mother had been insulted. After all, Bert was one of them. They knew him. A special...
...sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design. Made of a high-strength organic fiber, it features a flattened top and "skirts" that come down over the ears and nape of the neck; it looks unnervingly like the German model of World War II, but offers 30% more protection against shrapnel than the old Ml. The weight is about the same but it comes in three sizes, and soldiers who have tested it say it feels lighter, mainly because the wobble is eliminated...
...Mengele has found his way into contemporary literature. In Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy, he was the model for The Doctor who taunted God to punish him for his killings at Auschwitz. He is the inspiration for the drill-wielding Nazi named Szell in William Goldman's Marathon Man, and the mad doctor who sought to re-create a batch of little Hitlers in Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil...
...speaker and consultant to business. In one two-day period, he jetted to Chicago, Denver and San Francisco-and concluded that "there must be a better way to disseminate economic data and forecasts." It was on the plane that he conceived the idea of putting his econometric model and other data on a large central computer that clients could tap into...
...Wall Street's Donald Marron, chief executive of Mitchell, Hutchins, the investment advisory firm.* In 1969 it raised $1.1 million in seed money and became a founding partner in the company. DRI was not the first firm to market econometric forecasts; Lawrence Klein, who developed an econometric model of the U.S. economy shortly after World War II, has been selling forecasts from his famous Wharton School model for five years longer. But Eckstein's marketing flair and his computer time-sharing innovation have made DRI by far the biggest in the field. The most reliable performance rating...