Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a telephone tip one day last week, police rushed to busy Oxford Street, the heart of London's main shopping district, where bombs were said to have been planted. Police Explosives Expert Kenneth Howorth, 49, a former army warrant officer who had tackled I.R.A. bombs in Northern Ireland, went into a Wimpy hamburger shop to defuse one of the bombs. It blew up in his face, killing him instantly. Another bomb, hidden in a rest room in a nearby department store, was successfully removed by an explosives expert, who had just heard the blast that he knew...
...other candidates, only Charles Yancey, David Scondras and Terry McDermott have even outside chances. However, if the neighborhood bused candidates--Yancey, a Black running for the second time, Scondras, an antiarson expert, and political unknown Craig Lankhorst, a West Indian--run strongly, it will encourage a grass-roots, city-wide progressive political movement. That political movement, begun behind State Rep. Mel King's mayoral candidacy two years ago, could become the deciding constituency in the next mayor's race...
...could come an agreement by the Saudis, who pump almost half of OPEC's total production, to raise the price of their crude by $2, to $34 per bbl., re-establishing that as the new, and lower, "official" OPEC price. With overall prices lower, Petroleum Expert Walter Levy warns that the incentive to find and develop alternatives to imported oil will decrease, making the U.S. and the rest of the world more vulnerable than ever in the next oil shortage...
...aspiring actress until she became a nutritional guru. Mazel allows only fruit the first ten days-as much as five pounds of grapes a day-and no meat, poultry or fish until Day 19. Some doctors say the book should be listed under fiction. A leading nutrition expert says, "If you went to a bookstore and bought a history that said the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1827 or World War I began in 1905, you'd be pretty angry." If followed too long, the Beverly Hills Diet may lead to diarrhea, and although medical evidence is scant...
...expert on nuclear energy and uclear weaponry, Carnesale was ominated by former President Carter in 980 to head the Nuclear Regulatory ommission. He served on the United States delegation in the Strategic Arms imitation Talks in the early '70s and later eaded the U.S. delegation to the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle valuation...