Word: experts
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...work eventually for Newsweek changed when the Wall Street Journal hired her in 1974 as a correspondent for their Washington Bureau. The editor assigned her to cover the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other regulatory agencies, an area in which, House admits, she did not want to become an expert, lest she be condemned to cover it for the rest of her career. She made the best of it by covering the human interest angle of her beat. When the FCC issued a regulation limiting the number of newspapers, television and radio stations a single family could own, she travelled...
...barreled beautifully down Gstaad's ice-covered Horneggli-Schönried ski runs last week, but though the style was fearless, the conditions were fearful, and Spain's King Juan Carlos, 45, an expert skier, took a wild tumble that cracked his pelvis. Taken by stretcher to a hospital in the nearby Swiss town of Saanen, Juan Carlos was flown with his wife, Queen Sofia, to Madrid the next day aboard the royal DC-8. Ordered immobilized by his doctors for at least a month, the King will be fulfilling his duties from...
...There is a half-hour break, but Levine never stops moving. "I'm sorry about the mistake," says one singer. "Don't be silly," soothes Levine. Like an expert politician working a crowd, he is able to carry on a conversation without losing any time. He chats with Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler about a recent recital he played and compares notes on pianos. Then a quick lunch of half a turkey sandwich and a diet soft drink. More paperwork awaits: an invitation from Sarah Lawrence College to give a lecture series, replies to fan letters, rehearsal changes...
...strengths measured. The office has an effect: after two years it has either toughened or weakened its holder. Leaders of other nations have also had time to come to conclusions about the President and take actions that affect the U.S. Virtually all the pollsters, including Reagan's expert, Richard Wirthlin, believe that in the third year public opinion, the essence of power, often tilts irretrievably for or against a President...
...spectrum ranging from conservative monetarism to Maoism with a calypso beat. Political apathy is rarely a problem. On minuscule Dominica (pop. 80,000), for example, virtually everyone seems to tune in to daily radio broadcasts of debates in the 30-member House of Assembly. As a U.S. State Department expert puts it, "We can take solace in the fact that the parliamentary system is fundamental in the Caribbean, and holding up well almost everywhere...