Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power in a world where the ideological certitudes of the cold war have been replaced by raucous warlords and wild-eyed nationalists? When Clinton made his choice for the job last December, he could be sure that Les Aspin, who had made a career in Congress as an expert on defense policy, possessed the necessary devotion to the task. As it turns out, he should have wondered more whether Aspin also + had the bureaucratic agility and credibility to work with the armed services...
...Gore's suggestion, the President invited Inman to the White House for a two- hour afterdinner chat about national-security issues. Though it wasn't intended as a job interview, it was enough to impress Clinton that he may have found his candidate. Not only was Inman a policy expert and a businessman with managerial experience, like Clinton he was a small-town boy from the South (East Texas) who had risen...
...EXPERTS. If the abuse case comes to trial, expert witnesses will be asked to fit Jackson's public behavior to the psychograph of a child molester. "What we see in the pattern of a fixated offender," notes clinical psychologist Nicholas Groth, co-author of Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents, "is that he seems to get along well with people significantly older than him and those who are younger. He has a significant absence of peers. He lives more in the world of childhood than the adult world." And when the sex is gay, the offender is often homophobic, Groth...
...population -- is owing to its almost complete prohibition of handguns, and how much to its famously cohesive and cooperative culture? Britain's relative peace is partly due to the fact that British criminals "feel they should be playing within a set of rules," insists David Kopel, an expert on gun control at the Cato Institute in Washington...
...blow up when they turn on the ignition. They also talk on the phone quite a bit, usually in darkly lighted rooms, to callers who are not entirely forthcoming in their messages. From time to time, they are chased by nameless people who are boringly expert at dealing out sudden death...