Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ladies' Home Journal stories. What is more, it seems incredible for a group this consistently in eloquent to be enjoying high-flying literary careers. A case in point: Jason meets Leo, a reporter who has been spending his time "just hanging around." "I hear you're an expert on Russia," Jason says. "Dah. I speak the lingo," comes the reply. A little later, Leo--after weeks of puppy-eyed stares at Phoebe --confesses he has written a feature story about her simply in order to see her. She stares at him--"Why!" -another blank "Because I want to marry...
...that, there is one group of expert if not exactly impartial observers who are convinced that Mondale will win the nomination: Reagan's White House aides. It is not a prospect that displeases them, for most believe that Glenn would be more difficult to defeat because of his appeal to the all-important political center. "If Glenn is the candidate, Reagan won't have exclusive rights to motherhood and apple pie," says one Republican political consultant...
...increasingly more difficult to control information and keep it from ordinary people," says Oswald Ganley, information-resources expert at Harvard. Generally speaking, he suggests, the more people talk the less they fight. At the same time, we have to be careful. There are opportunities for misunderstanding if the communication gets careless, as in the Iranian hostage crisis, which Ganley believes was prolonged by excessive rhetoric...
...show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven volley of one-line gags; with expert timing and tireless bounce, he also hurls his whole 6 feet and 191 dieted pounds into every act of his show. His motto is still "anything for a laugh"-and practically anything he does gets...
...frantic warning was radioed at precisely 8:31 a.m. on that fateful Sunday by Volcano Expert David Johnston, 30, who had climbed to a monitoring site five miles from Washington State's Mount St. Helens in the snow-capped Cascade Range, 40 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. He wanted to peer through binoculars at an ominous bulge building up below the crater, which had been rumbling and steaming for eight weeks, and report his observations to the U.S. Geological Survey center in Vancouver, Wash...