Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury was indeed persuaded, and ultimately convicted the Collinses (TIME, Jan. 8, 1965). Small wonder. With the help of an expert witness from the mathematics department of a nearby college, the prosecutor explained that the probability of a set of events actually occurring is determined by multiplying together the probabilities of each of the events. Using what he considered "conservative" estimates (for example, that the chances of a car's being yellow were 1 in 10, the chances of a couple in a car being interracial 1 in 1,000), the prosecutor multiplied all the factors together and concluded...
...homemade spatzle (noodles), and her idea of an ideal main course is roast duck served with white rice, artichoke bottoms and petits pois with a salad of romaine, watercress and little mandarins. No dieter herself ("If one eats right, one doesn't have to"), she made herself an expert in low-calorie meals. And when Weight Watchers magazine asked for a few samples, she cheerfully agreed. As recipes, they were ordinary. Her "Black Mushroom Soup" is simply five cups of bouillon, 1 Ib. of sliced mushrooms with coarse pepper seasoning simmered for 30 minutes, after which the mushrooms...
...letter offered to use students to provide "expert testimony." But Wilcox wrote that since "only a fraction" of the Committee's time is spent on undergraduate affairs, regular undergraduate participation would not be profitable...
...probably the only line anywhere whose chief is just that: its chairman, Chief Abdullah Said Fundikira, 47, is a Cambridge-trained agricultural expert, a onetime Justice Minister of Tanganyika and, according to Wanyamwezi tribal lore, the reincarnation of a centuries-old rainmaker. Despite the chief's lineage, skies could hardly be clearer for him and his airline...
...first of a number of expert witnesses scheduled to testify in the trial of 32 Avatar salesmen, including seven Harvard students, charged with selling obscene literature...