Word: expertly
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...ordinary citizens, a 30-second warning might be of limited use unless they had rehearsed what to do. Where it might be most helpful, according to sociologist Dennis Mileti, a warning expert at Colorado State University, "is in schools and offices where people can practice responding to bells." Here too Japan has led the way. Its communities regularly conduct earthquake warning drills, while in California such drills are done only sporadically in some schools and workplaces. Still, most Californians know that when the ground starts to rumble, they must get away from the windows, duck beneath a sturdy table, stand...
...hard to get an accurate measure of public opinion by talking to a few random strangers. But there ways to get more scientific samplings. Meet Steve, a public opinion expert and barber at the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle Street...
...fire aboard TWA Flight 843 erupted in the rear of the L-1011 jumbo jet as it was about to lift off for San Francisco with 292 aboard. The pilot aborted the takeoff, the plane crashed through a runway barrier and the crew chuted out the passengers with expert precision; 55 people suffered minor injuries. Other air travelers were not so lucky. A Thai jetliner carrying 113 people reportedly slammed into a Himalayan mountainside as it approached Katmandu, Nepal; all are feared dead. In Nanjing, China, at least 100 died in a takeoff crash...
According to an American expert with close ties to Riyadh, Saudi King Fahd is "apoplectic" about the aggressive American probe. The Arabs, says this source, "are appalled and prefer to believe the B.C.C.I. investigation is a Zionist plot." Though the New York indictments differ little from ones handed down by the U.S. Justice Department, it has been New York's Morgenthau who has set the agenda. The Saudis claim that his father, former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, was instrumental in persuading President Harry Truman to recognize the new state of Israel. (The theory is shaky: ironically, it was a young...
Campaign aides and GOP members of Congress have begun to worry about their ticket. And more importantly, reporters want some explanation for Bush's inability to find the path so well- worn by expert Republican campaigners. It is this combination which has slowly cranked up the rumor mill now known as the White House...