Word: expert
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...study crowd crushes, there was nothing surprising about what happened at Wal-Mart. It was reminiscent of many tragedies that have come before, at soccer stadiums, concerts and Ikea stores, which only makes it more awful. "We know exactly how crowds work," says G. Keith Still, a crowd management expert who has helped plan high-density events around the world, including the annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. There is, he says, no excuse for these kinds of accidents. "It's stupidity. It's ignorance. But the consequence is human life...
Hall, who co-taught a historical studies course with Hoffman, called the expert on French political and intellectual history the “finest lecturer I’ve ever heard...
...selects entrants for its five bowl games using an algorithm that weighs two expert polls and six intricate computer rankings. Its mastermind, former Southeastern Conference commissioner Roy Kramer, had a simple mission when he unveiled the system in 1998: pinpoint a formula that would pit the nation's two top-ranked teams against each other in a winner-take-all contest. Since 1902, postseason bowl matchups had been based largely on historic rivalries and conference affiliations. Schools reaped financial windfalls, but the process failed to crown a definitive champion...
...fact, English professor Gordon Teskey—an expert on Shakespeare who also used to teach English 10a—said he thinks there would be more of an emphasis on great authors, whereas the current set-up makes time period and geography the central organizing principles...
...real decision-making?and the foreign leaders he visited knew it. And Vice President Dick Cheney was a power center unto himself. "You look at the team that George W. Bush brought in, and they also were very talented and experienced people," says Stephen Biddle, a defense expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "It turned into a disaster because the President did a very poor job managing his staff and couldn't resolve disputes among his people." (See pictures of Barack Obama on election night...