Word: experts
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...brought a startling variety of talents and interests to the magazine. He loved opera (Tosca was his favorite); he read Latin and Greek, occasionally poring over Aristotle in his office; he was a student of theology and philosophy; he was a military expert, having served Stateside in the Marines during World War I. He was also a skilled pilot who had flown with Charles Lindbergh in the Missouri National Guard. During World War II, Alex used to relax on weekends by test-piloting Grumman fighters...
Further, a collapse of the dollar, the world's central trading currency, could paralyze global trade and investment. That could lead to a severe recession, not only in the U.S. but worldwide. Said one Belgian expert: "The world was facing its worst economic crisis since...
...eventual easing of interest rates. "There will be a braking effect," he says, "but other economic indicators are quite strong in the U.S., and a cautious balancing should avoid recession." Werner Flandorfer, currency expert of the Bonn Economics Ministry, agrees. "The Fed's action will not have any real recessive effect. It will slow down the boom but will not plunge the country into a recession...
...jury based its verdict mostly on the defense's contention that curare could not possibly be found in tissue from bodies that had been buried for more than a decade. To support this, Defense Attorney Raymond Brown called 21 expert witnesses, including one from Sweden...
...side, and the head of an Oxford college who also chairs a very popular radio quiz program. The most brilliant intellects will display a modesty bordering on absent-mindedness: someone who says he dabbles in Anglo-Saxon poetry may well turn out to be the world's greatest expert on it. If you can accept all this, and see it not merely as something which is "cute" (an expression, incidentally, which the English hate), but as a vital part of a process whereby the past and present are kept in equilibrium, you will be a long way to getting...