Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters. He swiftly plugged them into the plot: the "very Nordic" Rick Rand, suave financial genius; the "very oriental" T'sa Li, Rick's sex-hungry girlfriend; Mikhail Sarkov, KGB agent posing as multinational chairman Greg Ballinger; T'ang Li, T'sa Li's mammoth brother and Kung Fu expert. Liddy threw in a mafia don and several Company people because, after all, they were his friends. He kept Edward Zlin, because, after all, Zlin was Liddy...
Mexico has cut its population growth from 3.5% to 2.9% by a birth control program that one American expert describes as "the most far-reaching and innovative in the non-Communist world." It will spend $530 million on the program this year. Contraceptive devices and surgical sterilization are provided free in clinics throughout the country. Some 12,000 women, many drawn from the ranks of furanderas (herb doctors), have visited 60% of Mexico's remote villages. Roughly 40% of the country's 15 million women of child-bearing age have been persuaded to use some form of contraception. Although...
...Kissinger says, casualties "never reached more than a quarter of the 800 a week that Laird had feared," and dropped sharply after that. At the time, Kissinger estimated that the action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse a gathering explosion at home. The May 4 killing of four students at Kent State University by rifle fire from...
...pursuit of its own profit. The House Interior Committee has uncovered unconscionable negligence on the part of both the plant owner, Babcock & Wilcox, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Three Mile Island incident. Both ignored the detailed warning of the Tennessee Valley Authority's chief nuclear safety expert. He told them in 1977--two years before the accident--that the plant's method of measuring cooling water levels was faulty, yet nothing was done...
This baleful opinion is expressed by a captive member of the Dutch Parliament. The tour of inquiry also includes clergymen, a woman college president, a journalist, an English don, a U.S. Senator and a Middle East expert from Buffalo. The art collectors are mostly codgers who, among them, own a modest share of the world's old masters. It is not easy: "The penalty of owning great works of art, or even itsy-bitsy ones, was that the minute anything out-of-the-way happened, your thoughts flew to them like a mother bird to the nest...