Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of Radcliffe's academic contributions to Harvard's 350th, a historian, a literature expert and a self-proclaimed "scholar and advocate" yesterday discussed their contributions to the discipline of women's studies...
...close friends, although he was a ham-radio nut who made calls as far away as Australia. After his mother's death in 1978, he continued to live in the modest white frame house they had shared in Oklahoma City, 13 miles south of Edmond. An ex-Marine and expert marksman, he served in the Air National Guard as a handgun instructor; two of the weapons he used for his rampage were taken from the National Guard armory...
...antiques expert who cataloged the "collection" was dismayed by the mess left behind in the rush that preceded Marcos' fall in February. Rare Louis XV mirrors were found lying in water in the basement. Expensive stemware had been left in an oven. "It broke my heart," said Auctioneer Alan Erlichman. "Opulence and waste . . . It's a sacrilege." In fact, though Mrs. Marcos had stuffed the house with sugarplums, in recent years she had seldom spent a night there. In New York, she preferred to sleep in the penthouse of the posh Crown Building, which she owned, or to take...
...Boeing's 316 orders were placed by leasing companies; during the first half of 1986, their share skyrocketed to 109 out of 247. Overall, more than $10 billion worth of aircraft will be out on lease this year, up from $8.4 billion in 1985. Says James Halstead, an airline expert at the London-based James Capel brokerage firm: "Leasing provides the most convenient form of financing new planes...
...memoirs, Ambler's have few ominous moments and only one bitter note. The ironic revelation is his specialty: "Uncle Frank . . . had confidence in himself and had acquired important skills. We knew that because just a week ago he had been giving evidence . . . as a witness for the Prosecution. His expert field was the identification and valuation of non-ferrous scrap metal . . . It must have been at about that time, I think, that he began his remarkably long career as an embezzler." The failed playwright remembers his debut: "After the first act I wanted very much to leave." A colleague gives...