Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasized the money people put into video games. However, if a player is good, he doesn't spend much. It may take $20 or $30 to become an expert. But once the skill is mastered only three or four quarters a day are needed, and a game like Asteroids can be played for hours on just one quarter...
...served." Most critics of the swap see a great danger that once federal funding of AFDC and food stamps ends, many states will deliberately keep such benefits low in the expectation that the poor will move to states where benefits are higher. Contends Felix Rohatyn, a New York financial expert who has advised states and cities on their money problems: "All poverty programs should be funded by the Federal Government; otherwise, states are going to compete by driving poor people into other states." To Princeton University's Richard P. Nathan, a professor of public affairs, the plan "sets...
...talking to each other again." The Europeans were glad that the superpowers had committed themselves to a matter of primary European concern: the negotiations on theater nuclear weapons. Even the length of the talks gave the Europeans a bit of comfort. After all, remarked an Italian nuclear-arms expert, "if you only want to exchange insults, five minutes is enough...
...more than two centuries, the loyal legions of Yale and Harvard have struggled for athletic and social pre-eminence, with occasional digressions into academic debate. Last week the confrontation moved to a new battlefield when two expert chess players began a long-distance match in the name of 'Ivy League glory...
...match was suggested by mark A. Leeuwenburgh, another Leavett and Peirce employee and himself an expert player...