Word: expertly
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Harvard Professor John K. Fairbank, an expert on China Studies with whom Reischauer taught and wrote, commented on his colleague's abilities in a statement, "He was a person of very broad range: highly trained as a scholar who could handle Japanese, Chinese and European languages, yet he was a person with a common touch. He didn't carry scholarship around with him on his shoulder. He was honest and sincere...
...relations than reality, a way of buying time while he tested the staying power and cohesion of his enemies. In the process, Saddam aimed to consolidate his own position. "He hopes that after a while everyone will get used to Kuwait's being under Iraqi control," said an Iraq expert who advises the U.S. military on Saddam. Yet with the kind of schizophrenia that seems to characterize many of his moves, Saddam's cruel dallying over the hostages not only dissipated any goodwill his promise was intended to earn but made his opponents even angrier...
...there may be pictures to accompany Merenptah's text. In an article appearing in the current issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Frank Yurco, an expert in ancient Egyptian inscriptions, who works at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, says he found representations of the Pharaoh's Canaanite campaign chiseled into stone blocks at the Karnak temple in Luxor, Egypt. According to Yurco, the figures dressed in ankle-length clothes at the upper left corner of the top slab are the defeated Israelites; more Israelites lie in a confused jumble at the slab's bottom edge. If Yurco's theory...
...would tip the scales at more than 3 million tons. Sixty million students went back to their schools, some of which desperately need better teachers and facilities, though the U.S. will spend a record $384 billion for education this year. Almost all the states and cities face what urban expert Neal Peirce calls a "taut situation," many of them with new tax loads but still unable to deal with crime and congestion...
...depth. He now has to establish that, and it's been very difficult for him because of the adverse attitude toward him by the press. I think it is very unfair to characterize Dan Quayle as some lightweight who is far more interested in playing golf than becoming expert on issues...