Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economics, was named to study the long-range role of black studies in the Harvard curriculum. And on May 16 of this year Dean Ford announced plans for Soc Sci 5. That same day Richard E. Neustadt, chairman of the General Education Subcommittee in the Social Sciences, cautioned that experts in this new academic area were not readily available: "We felt the important thing was to get serious faculty working in a serious way rather than wait for the right expert to come along...
...They have lost more than 100,000 men killed this year," said a Pentagon expert. "Do you realize that is two field armies? They send those boys down south and they never come back. And they're doing no better in the war." One U.S. observer insisted that Hanoi can rely on only six of every ten men sent south to fight; the rest defect, including an even larger number of North Vietnamese civilian administrators, or melt into the jungle. The growing rate of defections, moreover, leads to better allied intelligence-a major factor in recent months in blunting...
Agnew got swift support from other sources. Maryland's Treasurer John Luetkemeyer, a Democrat, called the editorial "inaccurate, misleading and wrong in its facts." The Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star and the pro-Humphrey Washington Post, which are expert in Maryland politics, also came to Agnew's defense...
...shops, its restaurants and bars and some of its largest businesses. Nguyen Duy Thu Luong, for example, owns pharmaceutical laboratories, directs the Nam Do bank and runs the Park Hotel, where U.S. military briefings are held. Huynh Thi Nga, 25, runs the family-owned Saigon Motors, and is an expert mechanic...
...helps explain why, in the space of only a few years, his recordings of Schoenberg, Berg, Debussy and Stravinsky have been such successes. Says the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta: "When he does Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, it's so clear and expert, it's like George Szell's Eroica. It gets on your nerves a bit, because you know you can't do it as correctly...