Word: expertly
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...decide whether George was guilty of criminal perjury. Steven Kirk, the original foreman, said his fellow jurors had found George evasive, duplicitous and dissembling; they could not agree on conviction because they chose to wrestle with the narrow issue of George's "technical" responsibility to Congress. But Gillen used expert testimony and thousands of newly declassified documents to prove his point: that key officials of the CIA had blindly served the White House in circumventing Congress by providing aid to the Nicaraguan contras in defiance of the Boland amendment. Concedes a CIA veteran: "In the crunch, as an institution...
Fighting Evil: Baird Professor of History RICHARD E. PIPES, who coined the phrase "evil empire," testified as an "official expert" at a trial to outlaw the Russian Communist Party...
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Fighting Evil: Baird Professor of History RICHARD E. PIPES, who coined the phrase "evil empire," testified as an "official expert" at a trial to outlaw the Russian Communist Party...
...problem is that the economics of recycling are out of whack. Enthusiasm for collecting recyclables has raced ahead of the capacity in many areas to process and market them. Right now, says Victor Bell, a veteran Rhode Island recycling expert, "the market can't keep up with the recycling binge." In recent years many states and municipalities have passed laws mandating the collection of newspapers, plastics, glass and paper. But arranging for processing -- and finding a profit in it -- has proved tricky. As trucks loaded with recyclable materials arrive at processors, backlogs develop. Worse, the glut has depressed already soft...