Word: expertly
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Unfortunately, most of the book's subject do not even have Williams' credibility. They are small-timers like Chuck Connors, who played a mere three years for the Dodgers and Cubs before pursuing an acting career in Hollywood but considers himself an expert on the failings of current ballplayers. In his day, "Everybody played every game and I don't remember that many injuries." Today, players have "these sports doctors, the great food, the exercise, these great trainers, the great locker rooms and facilities...but Christ, all I hear today is hamstring and rotator cuff...
...Based on the process I saw in Luxembourg, thefact that he was convicted doesn't do very much tochange my belief that he's probably innocent,"said Kleiman, an expert in criminal justice at theKennedy School...
Intelligence experts fear that many terrorists have been able to replace Soviet financing with money from Iran, which is said to be backing undercover extremists from Algeria to Thailand -- while simultaneously bidding for better official relations with the West. A rising fear is that Tehran may seek to capitalize on the chaos engendered by the collapse of the U.S.S.R. by inspiring Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in the mostly Muslim Central Asian republics once ruled from Moscow. Worldwide, "Iran's attempts to export the Islamic revolution have largely replaced the former Soviet Union's communist revolutionary zeal" as a source...
...case has stunned the medical community.Some physicians have spoken in support ofBean-Bayog, a respected expert on alcohol abuse,while others say they still have unansweredquestions...
...intractable forces, especially in the Middle East, where they are ! mixed with deep religious passions, hatreds and dreams of revenge. In the long run, only the promise of economic progress, much as it may be loathed by Islamic fundamentalists and others, can dissolve such atavistic rages. A Japanese management expert says, "People don't want nationality and soil; they want satellites and Sony." A little glib, perhaps. But ultimately there is a universal desire in the Third World to achieve the better life that the developed world promises, or, as sociologist Alvin Toffler puts it, for the slow world...