Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the crisis. A CIA estimate this summer concluded that the new sanctions have actually strengthened his regime, handing it a convenient excuse to crack down on dissidents. "We're left now with a relationship that's more dysfunctional than during the cold war," says Robert Pastor, an NSC expert on Latin America during the Carter Administration. But in Florida, Clinton leads Dole in the latest polls by as much as five percentage points...
This is sad and eloquently written. It is also ugly. The trouble is not that Smith's fury lacks justification, nor even that all the novel's whites are pompous, silly do-gooders. The white, wannabe-Indian writer and the white, Indian "expert" professor whom Alexie satirizes are fair enough as stereotypes. And fairness, for that matter, is not the first requirement of a protest novel. But Alexie's tale is septic with what clearly seems to be his own unappeasable fury. He ends Smith's story by prophesying that murderous vengeance will not die; the killings will continue...
...during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory of Australia, Lindy Chamberlain reported seeing her nine-week-old baby Azaria taken by a dingo, a wild Australian dog. The baby's body was never recovered. Based upon bloodstains on the baby's jumpsuit, expert witnesses concluded Chamberlain had cut her child's throat with scissors. Vilified by the press, she was convicted of murder, her husband named an accessory. In 1986 the child's jacket was found, providing evidence that led to their exoneration. Their saga was turned into the 1988 movie...
...young age of 18, I am in possession of a sewing kit including over 25 colors of thread, a thimble and a tiny pair of scissors. Of course, my wardrobe consists of two basic colors--blue and brown--and I'm not exactly an expert sewer: I got a B- in Home Economics. At least I can use the scissors to cut my hair...
Kuhn also notes that while Radcliffe as a whole can afford to hire an IT expert like himself, no individual academic program would be able to do so, and that Radcliffe's IT program operates on lower costs per computer than other IT departments at Harvard...