Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets had every right of international law to send fighters up to inspect the intruder. Common sense, however, suggests that even the most expert observer flying some six miles high in the dim predawn light is not likely to see anything that U.S. surveillance satellites have not repeatedly scrutinized and photographed in far greater detail...
...pattern of escalating abuse in a situation from which the victim feels she cannot escape. Because they are usually physically stronger than their wives, men are less likely to be battered; for reasons of pride, they are also far less likely to report it. Sociologist Murray Straus, an expert on family violence, nonetheless estimates that each year 282,000 men are beaten by their wives...
Tabin and Teammate George Lowe, 38, tried to climb the East Face in 1981 and failed. They are, of course, expert mountaineers, who know the formidable dangers they confront. But this seriousness presents a problem in comprehension for citizens who like to think of themselves as solid. Everest's weather is as foul and unpredictable as any in the world, the avalanches of its snow fields and the icefalls of its tumbled glaciers pick off climbers every expedition or so, and the deadly thin air toward its 29,028-ft. summit debilitates and stupefies the mountaineers it does...
ALAN WHEAT. Asked for a self-appraisal, Wheat hesitantly responds, "I'm not an expert on everything, but I'm able to understand most things once I get the information." The freshman Congressman from Missouri's Fifth District, which embraces most of Kansas City, is unduly modest. His colleagues laud him as bright and able. His sense of humor is self-deprecatory, but Wheat, 31, a member of the powerful Rules Committee, takes his job seriously. Says an aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "He worries about things like industrial policy...
...baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision -it would be rated about 20/500, or "legally blind," as one expert puts it, but eyesight develops rapidly. Newborns start by looking at the edges of things, exploring. Even when the lights are turned out, as infra-red cameras show, an infant's eyes open wide to carry on its investigation of its surroundings. At eight weeks, it can differentiate between shapes of objects as well as colors (generally preferring red, then blue); at three months, it begins to develop stereoscopic vision...