Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking financial heads who failed to predict the big rise in U.S. stocks last year have resurfaced to forecast a modest rise in 1996. The expert consensus seems to be that stocks will advance 10% this year. That is not exactly a startling bit of augury: a 10% annual gain is about average for stocks in this century...
McNally, an expert on psychopathology, has been a member of the Faculty since 1991. He graduated from both Wayne State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago...
Gilbert, an expert in social psychology who graduated summer cum laude from the University of Colorado at Denver, is leaving a full professorship at the University of Texas to join Harvard's faculty...
...feel better. Food, by contrast, is something everyone consumes every day for life. Thus, says the commissioner, decisions on food additives "are among the most important the agency makes. There's an enormous responsibility to be thorough and to be vigilant." Acknowledges Wayne Callaway, a George Washington University nutrition expert who chaired P&G's scientific review council on olestra: "I'm very sympathetic to the FDA. They're in a very tight position because if they're wrong, everyone knows about...
Intensity, by Dean Koontz (Knopf; 308 pages; $25), is expert schlock by a writer who has specialized in horror. No creatures from beyond the grave here, just that reliable old formula, babe in distress. Chyna Shepherd is the sole survivor after a fairly efficient thrill killer invades a house where she is a weekend guest and murders everyone else. She's terrified and unarmed, but naturally, instead of calling the cops, she stows away in the killer's motor home as he escapes...