Articles and speeches drafted in his own hand leave no doubt that Reagan was exceptionally well read and had an excellent grasp of both history and current issues, including highly technical matters and complexstatistics.
At times, with complex calculations, statistics are presented by NASA as a measure for deciding whether to go ahead with a mission that is inherently risky.
Such first-hand accounts can do more than any number of speeches and statistics to illuminate a bafflingly complex conflict about which most foreigners would rather forget.
For most of the nine million Americans in sales (according to Bureau of Labor Department statistics), success now is much more complex than just sticking to the script and making a lot of calls.
Some companies use off-the-shelf statistics or highly generalized data on city rankings as a shortcut for the complex analysis needed to accurately prioritize and cluster locations.