Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raping an eight-year-old girl. His household income was about $25,000 a year, and his life savings totaled $10,000. The man's defense was that he is impotent, and he underwent a medical test that bolstered that claim. The test cost about $2,000; deposition and expert fees cost another $2,000; Rader accepted $6,000 rather than her customary $10,000 for the case. The man and his wife, a clerical worker, sold their house and moved into a cheaper apartment so he could pay his legal bills. But the trial ended with a hung jury...
Prosecutors are frantically trying to limit the damage done to their case Thursday whenO.J. Simpsonmuttered and struggled to pull on the bloody gloves while jurors watched. Today the prosecution recalled Richard Rubin, former vice president of glovemaker Aris Isotoner as an expert witness on gloves. Rubin testified the tighter glove had shrunk well below its extra-large size -- probably because it had been soaked in blood -- and said the gloves in their original condition would easily fit Simpson. He also explained that because the lining was damaged, it was very difficult to insert a hand completely into the glove. Rubin...
...Sarah" could have been the perfect spy. She speaks five languages, is an excellent marksman and did well in her counterterrorism course in high-speed evasive driving. She is an expert in international weapons proliferation and economics. She can pass for Mexican, Egyptian, Italian, Indian, Spanish, even Thai. On assignment for the CIA in the Third World, Sarah, decked out in dangling earrings and tight-fitting pencil jeans, foiled surveillance by fading into hooker-infested back alleys. She has sat primly in "love hotels" taking notes as informants rattled on about the doings of a terrorist cell. Sarah should have...
Which raises an interesting question. When you're playing poker over the computer networks, how do you know your opponent isn't pocketing your winnings? Rogers, a computer expert from Las Vegas, is putting the finishing touches on a device he hopes will put those fears to rest. The hardware, which plugs into the back of a PC, is a kind of gambling "smart card" that is supposed to use powerful encryption to record all transactions between the house and the player...
...expert computer animation by Dennis Muren and his fellow effects wizards at ILM, Casper is cute and pudgy -- a Pillsbury ghost boy. Yet he is also a dead child speaking from an unquiet grave. Poaching on her father's turf, Kat serves as Casper's therapist and helps him remember his life and early death. "What's it like to die?" Kat asks eagerly, and Casper replies, "Like being born-only backwards." Before long, Kat is forced to decide who lives and who dies-her father or her new best friend...