Word: experts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural-gas shortage was called "a nightmare" by Joseph Solters, the Federal Power Commission's gas expert...
...months is also a threat throughout the farm belt. Grain farmers want more snow, not less, to blanket and insulate the ground -and provide moisture in the spring. Livestock herds are being sold off as feed costs rise. Things are so bad that Roald Lund, a North Dakota agriculture expert, suggested that farmers should simply take a holiday...
...coup provided the Communists with their biggest influx of recruits in a decade: an estimated 600 to 1,000 student leftists who fled Bangkok and began training in "liberated" zones and in neighboring Laos. It also polarized Thai politics. "Before the coup," says one Thai counterinsurgency expert, "there were four channels open to anyone with a complaint: Parliament, the newspapers, government officials and the Communists. Now there are only two: the government or the guerrillas...
...days and some are kept a year or more, not only because they are undergoing extensive skin grafts but because portions of the body may have to be entirely reconstructed. In fact, says Brooke's Colonel Basil A. Pruitt, the army's top burn expert, the plastic surgery in some cases is sheer artistry...
...strictly enforced time limits to the point of reprimanding speakers for talking too long about issues previously discussed. Whitlock was clearly growing tired of the housing debate last year, and his replacement Fox came forward with a definite plan that probably will carry the day. And Collier, a computer expert who annually bore the bad news of the housing lottery, is no longer available for the committee to kick around. Spence, his replacement, is now talking about an assignment system that would ask students to name only three choices; that also appears to have support on the CHUL...