Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraqi dissidents into an opposition against Saddam Hussein. With Baghdad's re-entry into northern Iraq, that mission was obliterated. "Saddam has knocked out many of America's eyes and ears, and your good name was tarnished," says Professor Amatzia Baram of Israel's Haifa University, a leading Iraq expert. "U.S. credibility and reputation for protecting its friends has suffered a terrible blow." Even as the U.S. deploys F-117 Stealth fighter-bombers to temper Saddam's erratic outbursts, the CIA must rebuild its Iraqi operation from the bottom...
...catchy toll-free number (1-888-4FEN-FEN) that it advertises in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily News and on Howard Stern's syndicated radio show. Some places offer discounts for customers who buy in bulk. Many, says Dr. Michael Myers, an obesity expert in Los Alamitos, California, hand out prescriptions for fen/phen "like cheap Halloween candy...
...African's list of the worst ways to die. With the 1994 publication of the best seller The Hot Zone, that fear had gone global. The symptoms--catastrophic hemorrhaging, bloody diarrhea and the literal disintegration of one organ after another--were Ebola-like, all right. But the locals needed expert help to make sure. The U.N. organization rushed a team to the scene and, reports Dr. David Heymann, head of the WHO's new Division for Emerging and other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC), "in five days the Ebola diagnosis was confirmed, and the outbreak was nipped...
...three or four cities a day and have drinks with his aides. But as far as Clinton is concerned, the campaign machinery is designed to have reporters see--at only slightly closer range--just what the public sees. We duly observe the big, exultant crowds generated by expert advance teams, the Reagan-quality visual backdrops, the sound systems that never fail. Most of us dutifully report the torrent of bite-size initiatives his policy wonks are churning out, from free cell phones for neighborhood-watch groups to a Website for locating deadbeat dads. We come to both admire and resent...
Instead he proved anew that he was, as elections expert James Thurber of American University in Washington put it, just plain "weird." For most of 1996 he gave lip service to his advisers' words that the election "is not about me." But a day after former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm announced that he would seek the Reform Party's nomination, Perot entered the race and proved that it really was about him. And by accepting $29 million in taxpayer money to fund his general-election campaign--just like any other pol--he undermined his credibility both as an outsider...