Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should it take an expert to sort out just whose desires are being fulfilled or to recognize the difference between a child who loves her piano lessons and one who is going through the motions. But children can be dangerously adaptive. "Most children really want to make their parents happy and will go to enormous effort to that purpose, even beyond their own best interest," says Feldman. Little Jessica, for instance, may truly have loved to fly, but, says Feldman, her parents "were taking the idea of following a child's lead seriously. But a child is a child...
...well by OCS, in our experience we have found that too many repeatedly come away empty-handed--particularly in fields unrelated to business--complaining of ill-informed staff and unhelpful resources. We even know of students who have been given blatantly wrong information by OCS counselors who are supposedly expert in their field. Other than a small selection of yellowing volumes with out-of-date data, OCS has little to offer those who seek work outside the business sector...
...powerfully angry. Yet he must have enormous patience to experiment with explosives and triggers and not blow his fingers off. "When you see this stuff, some of these components bear markings of having been put together and taken apart repeatedly," said Chris Ronay, the FBI's top bomb expert in the 1980s. "It's not just that he's creating something carefully. He's played with it for a while. He marks things with numbers so he can put them together again right. He's leaving a little of himself at each crime scene...
Orren, an expert in media and politics and a public opinion analyst, is the associate director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...
...dragged by a helicopter; but none was ever raped by a big stork. "I think I'm the only actress ever to have been violated by a marabou," Curtis says proudly. That act behind her (in straight-to-video, The Devil's Daughter), Curtis plays a forensics expert on UPN's new series The Sentinel. Being a Curtis has its downside: "If I compared my career to theirs, I'd be dead." But some things are passed on. "[Mom and I] sit in my trailer and play gin," says Curtis. "Just like we used to when it was her trailer...