Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more," Fuentes says. "Take Detroit or Caracas, Mexico City or Atlanta -- you're going to find the same problems of pollution, crime, drug abuse, homelessness. The U.S. must see itself in that buried mirror of otherness, of tragedy, of bearing up to difficult times, of survival. Mexico is an expert at survival. The U.S. can learn much from the Mexican moral...
...with PCBs and other chemicals that the Medical Society of Genesee County, Mich., has taken the extraordinary step of warning that the stuff should not be eaten by "children or by men or women who ever plan to have children." All in all, says Jeffery Foran, an environmental-health expert at George Washington University, "if you're pregnant or nursing, you should probably avoid most kinds of fish...
...produce a new car (six years) than the U.S. did to fight and win World War II. But he could never make the company move -- a bad augury for a presidential hopeful who would have to deal with a federal bureaucracy that is even bigger, more rigid and more expert at sidetracking would-be reformers...
...players dismiss the cries of poverty as a bargaining ploy. In many cases, they charge, the red ink is a figment of creative accounting. A study by baseball accounting expert Roger Noll, professor of economics at Stanford University, found that the Pirates earned a profit of $4 million in 1990 but turned it into an $8 million loss by taking one-time write-offs, such as the expenses to pay released players. Players also point out that salary increases are slowing. Average pay is up 25% this year, vs. 45% in 1991. Next year salaries are projected to inch...
...hard-core, shoot-'em-up, hope-to-die criminals," Valdivia says. "But you won't find the Boy Scouts in South Central L.A. Most kids join gangs because that's what there is to join." And, like diseases, gangs can be contagious. According to University of Southern California gang expert Malcolm W. Klein, in 1961 there were 23 cities with known street gangs nationwide. Today there are 187. Practically every state has some kind of gang problem. Nor is it limited to inner-city areas of major urban centers. Gangs can be found in suburban cities with populations as small...