Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though the U.N. is theoretically above politics, reformers are far from unanimous about using it. The track record is not encouraging. Notes Francois Dumaine, a logistics expert for the French volunteer medical team Medecins sans Frontieres: "It takes the U.N. a month and sometimes longer to organize rescue operations." Adds Serge Telle, a technical adviser to France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs, Bernard Kouchner: "The U.N. relief agencies are plagued with chronic financial difficulties because of the West's indifference. On the one hand, we say everything has to go through the U.N.; on the other...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...Crimson struggled in the early going against Dartmouth's odd defensive style. The Big Green managed to shut off the Crimson attack, by isolating the man with the ball and forcing Harvard to charge the cage. But with Cavouti--an expert one-on-one attacker and skilled playmaker--missing, Harvard had trouble maintaining possession, turning the ball over repeatedly...
...that was to the liking of the bureaucrats in charge of the factories. Of more than 5,000 military enterprises, only 400 began the conversion process and fewer than a dozen have completed it. "Conversion simply isn't happening," says William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs and a Soviet expert. "All sorts of hopes have evaporated...