Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago, Ferrari came again to Sebring and the master's entourage, with condescending eyes, looked over this year's Shelby Cobra. "This won't be a contest - for sure," one Ferrari expert predicted on the eve of the race. "Shel by can't put all that power to the road. The more power he gives the cars, the worse they handle." When the grueling, twelve-hour ordeal had ended, the Italians were hardly singing Un Bel Di. Ferrari's electric-red cars were in the top three places overall - first this year as they...
Died. Emerson Wirt Axe, 69, Wall Street securities analyst, manager of the Axe-Houghton group of five mutual funds (combined assets: $300 million), a onetime champion marksman, fencing, judo and chess expert (he once played six simultaneous games blindfolded in an exhibition), who predicted the 1929 crash six weeks in advance as well as the turnabout in July 1932, ran the business from a 40-room turreted castle in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y.; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
Erler is an expert on arms control and disarmament and is thought to be very influential in the German Foreign Ministry. He is the German spokesman at the Council of Europe, a member of the Western European Union, and is strongly interested in European unity...
...takes only a little know-how to buy an expert who happens to represent the right view" is the cynical observation of one Washington, D.C., law professor. Most trial lawyers would agree to the fact, but not necessarily to the cynicism. Particularly in such fields as psychiatry, where theories, methodology, and even terminology are far from settled, the diametrically opposed expert opinions brought out in a trial are likely to be rooted in genuine professional differences. But the ability to make a choice between those differences is one of the cornerstones of U.S. justice. When experts cannot agree, the final...
...most confusing-and most 'disturbing-presidential primary," said the New York Times. "You might as well be your own expert," said Scripps-Howard's Houston Press. These comments seemed a far cry from the usual confident election postmortems. But then, New Hampshire was no ordinary election; its results incited numerous misgivings and even more contradictions in the nation's press...