Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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French military officials do say the Iraqi army is running out of spare parts for tanks and armored personnel carriers and, in the words of one top officer, "will crumble soon after the first encounters." But Washington specialists do not believe it. Says Anthony Cordesman, a top congressional staff expert on the Middle East, who toured Iraqi military installations in 1989: "It will be a really long time -- I'm talking maybe a year -- before the embargo seriously affects Iraq's military capacity." Determining whether Saddam will pull out of Kuwait by then without fighting is problematic, and probably irrelevant...
...historian's dream -- a major discovery about an important person -- is more of a nightmare for Stanford University professor Clayborne Carson. An admirer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and an expert on black America, Carson was picked by King's widow Coretta to head the team that is compiling the civil rights leader's papers. Two years ago, Carson's staff came upon unsettling signs of plagiarism...
...expert advisors being considered is Nadja B. Gould, a rape counselor at University Health Services (UHS), Viggiani said...
...author's mood at the end is dour; a character who seems to speak for him, a mortally wounded expert in chaos theory, crabs at modern science for its narrow, intrusive brilliance and its broad lack of common sense. Yes, yes, the reader agrees without much enthusiasm. Thinking all the while: if you really could clone a tyrannosaur, wouldn't it be worth it, just to hear the thing roar...
...doubts about how well they might fare. In a major battle, only those units equipped with large numbers of tanks could play a significant role: the Saudis, Egyptians and Syrians. While the Saudi air force is modern and well trained, the army is not. According to Anthony Cordesman, an expert on Middle East military issues, the Saudi army is at least 30% under strength. Most army units are commanded by members of the Saudi royal family selected for loyalty rather than military prowess. Exercises involving more than 6,000 men are rare. If it becomes necessary to move larger numbers...