In private, though, he is serious and analytical, a soft-spoken intellectual who often sounds like the Harvard-trained economist that he is.

From the first, they were leaders of a team that never quite clicked, the blunt-spoken industrial chieftain and the gloomy Harvard-trained economist.

The Harvard-trained economist is now considered the most powerful minister in the Menem Government.

He is a Harvard-trained economist who helped design the most attractive features of the outgoing administration's reform program.

"There is no more dispute," Mr. Villegas, a Harvard-trained economist, said Tuesday.

But Mr. Cavallo, 50, a Harvard-trained economist, was highly respected by investors and bankers.

Mr Salinas himself is a Harvard-trained economist.

Mr. Calderon, a Harvard-trained economist, looked the part of a president, sounded well-informed and shot ahead in preference polls.

The new Foreign Minister is be Domingo Cavallo, a Harvard-trained economist.

The visitor, Nguyen Xuan Oanh, a Harvard-trained economist, is scheduled to arrive in this country at the end of the month.