Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people have been infected with the deadly virus. It can lie dormant in the body for years before producing symptoms. U.S. health officials have estimated that between 950,000 and 1.45 million Americans have picked up the virus, but that is based on spotty data. Admits a federal AIDS expert: "It's just hard to take those numbers seriously...
...nerves around those numbers and make them as real and as ominous as our cholesterol readings? Repeat them each night on the evening news? We need feedback, as if we were the audience in a giant public radio fund-raising drive hitting the phones and making pledges. Like expert pilots navigating through a foggy night, we need the faith to fly the planet collectively by our instruments and not by the seat of our pants. In the West we need the faith and courage to admit the bitter truth, that our prosperity is based as much on cheap energy...
...Harvard expert whose writings have beeninfluential in the federal drug policy debate saidthat the new judges would have little effect...
...Butterfield '61, New York Times reporterand East Asian expert, said that student unreststemmed from high inflation and politicalcorruption that accompanied the economic reformsof Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping...
...legal expert said that the bill apparentlystands on solid Constitutional ground. HarvardProfessor of Law Kathleen M. Sullivan compared theproposal to linking federal highway funds to statedrinking ages, a practice that has withstoodfederal court challenges...