Word: expertly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...participant. Meanwhile, loyalty on the Republican side has broken down, especially on taxes. In recent weeks the Administration has floated several revenue proposals, probing gently for reaction to possible taxes on energy and stock transactions and limiting deductions for state and local taxes. But while the White House is expert at leaking, it has been unable to keep its troops in line and has therefore stopped short of formally offering its ideas...
...Margaret Thatcher and a Conservative Member of Parliament, with a bomb that wrecked his Montego car in the driveway of his home. Three days earlier in West Germany, the Red Army Faction almost succeeded in killing Hans Neusel, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry and Bonn's top antiterrorist expert, in a similar attempt. The actions demonstrated that while their numbers may be dwindling, both the I.R.A. and the R.A.F. do not need popular support, or even broadly based groups of sympathizers, to remain murderously effective...
...attempted to assassinate six leading West German figures -- and succeeded four times. Eight months ago, the group killed Deutsche Bank chief executive Alfred Herrhausen, a personal adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, by exploding a bomb along a street as Herrhausen's armored Mercedes-Benz 500SE limousine passed by. Antiterrorist expert Neusel escaped that fate only because his chauffeur was on holiday: Neusel was driving and the blast ripped through the passenger side...
...leaving them vulnerable to every passing germ. Some researchers question the wisdom of performing a novel -- and potentially dangerous -- therapy on children, especially since there is already an effective drug treatment. "There are a lot of other diseases without therapies," says Duke University's Dr. Michael Hershfield, an expert on ADA deficiency. "And they're in adults who can make decisions for themselves...
WASHINGTON--An error of about one millimeter--called "astonishing" by one expert for its large size--has been found in a measuring device used to guide the manufacture of a flawed mirror on the Hubble Space Telescope...