Word: expertly
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...time when 1 out of every 3 British marriages ends in divorce, however, the Yorks are hardly an unusual case. "I think the appeal of the monarchy is precisely that these are ordinary people with ordinary problems," said Lord St. John of Fawsley, a British constitutional expert. He pointed to "the prevailing climate of moral opinion" that accepts divorce. The royal family, if anything, has had more than its share of split-ups: Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, ended her marriage with Lord Snowdon 14 years ago, and Andrew's sister Princess Anne is separated from her husband. Charles...
...economy is weakest and the class lines closest. So white workers competing for the same jobs as black workers express their resentment about affirmative action. Equally indignant are blacks who began to enter the work force only to be ejected by the recession. Periodically Terkel calls on an expert to provide an overview to the folk commentary. Despite obvious racial progress, few are optimistic. "You have young black men coming up now who would have worked in factories," says Professor Douglas Massey of the University of Chicago. "But there are far less such places today. Aside from working at McDonald...
...graphics. "What real filmmakers do is they study films, they study their craft," Singleton observes. "No matter how much success they encounter, they are always in the process of studying." Singleton himself watches at least one film a day, a practice he equates with taking vitamins. "Nobody is an expert at filmmaking," he says. "Anyone who tells you he is, is lying. I'm still a student." Yes, but for the moment at the head of his class...
...slightly elevated risk of bile-duct injury, but the injuries seem to be concentrated in the first operations a surgeon performs. For this reason, medical societies have begun drawing up training standards that direct novices to practice on animals first and then to conduct their first operations under an expert...
...Thunderbird hurtling along a narrow causeway across Lake Pontchartrain. The daughters never hear their father mention her again, but the moment of her passing envelopes each of them. The author understands a fundamental truth about Southerners: to them, she writes, "sweet and sad mean the same thing." Like an expert mixologist, Bosworth measures out life's sorrow in equal proportion to its sweetness...