Word: experts
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Dores is an impressionist expert at a London auction house who has been sent to New York to help increase business in that prestigious and lucrative field. In town just long enough to establish a ruinous double love life, he is ordered to the Deep South to close a deal for some Sisleys and Vuillards belonging to a crusty old patriarch named Loomis Gage. For Gage, read Snopes; Henderson is soon in far beyond his depths of courage or cunning with this moody, devious clan. The old man's fortune comes from some patents he took out on parking...
...them belong to the younger age brackets. West Paces Ferry Hospital in Atlanta reports that the average age of people coming in for treatment dropped from 49 to 39 in the past decade. A study showed that 70% of Georgia's eighth- graders had used alcohol, and one expert estimates that the state had 45,000 teen alcoholics. One of every five freshmen at the University of Minnesota admits to being a heavy drinker, which is twice the rate found in 1975. A survey of 1,200 students in fraternities and sororities on the campus of the University of Illinois...
Cateher Gia Barresi provided expert guidance both behind the plate and at the plate. Defensively, she was a stabilizing element for pitchers Gerri Rubin and James Dickerman...
Coke's new taste was born of its efforts to produce diet Coke, a smashing success that since its introduction in 1982 has bubbled up to third place among U.S. soft drinks, with a 5.4% market share. In the course of developing diet Coke, says Goizueta, "our expert taste testers came upon a taste better than the old Coca-Cola. We had two options: We could do nothing, put it on the shelf and forget we ever developed it. Or we could change the taste and give the world a new Coca-Cola...
DeSisto, the new prosecutor, is an earnest but inexperienced 29-year-old legal beagle who already seems frustrated. Von Bulow's principal attorney for this trial is former Abscam Prosecutor Thomas Puccio, who is as brashly streetwise as Claus is polo-wise; Dershowitz, a constitutional expert, is advising him from the wings...