Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beneath the entertaining detective-chase motif, however, lurks the shadow of the seemier aspects of art acquisition. Even Hoving cannot help but allude to that most popular of methods of removing a piece from the bosom of its native country--smuggling. Harry Sperling, "The world's leading expert in arranging that almost any work of art you've seen, any place in the world, suddenly turns up safe and sound in Switzerland, eminently exportable to the United States," explains his technique to Hoving, a quick study...
...even livelier, or perhaps deadlier, trade is in war-torn Lebanon. Says one expert: "There are more
...money-market fund; the worthy new enterprise that cannot afford to borrow and expand and therefore loses market share and stagnates, perhaps eventually being driven out of business altogether by some tough and well-heeled foreign competitor from, say, Japan. Says Purdue University Economist William Dunkelberg, a small-business expert: "For every firm that goes bankrupt, there are another 15 to 20 firms that pay off their debts and just close their doors...
Concerns over diminishing University prizewinnings, though, was far from anybody's mind Monday. Bloembergen, an expert on non-linear optics and nuclear magnetic resonance, voiced only one worry, and it was appropriately mild: "I hope [the award] won't change my life too much because I consider my life pretty good...
...Even though I have always defined myself as a writer and critic, and by no means a specialist on political or economic matters, like many people in Eastern Europe, I became an "involuntary dissident" because of moral rather than political convictions. Here, I am still treated as an expert on Polish affairs and somebody who can predict Poland's future. True, I have seen with my own eyes all that happened; I even took part in it, just as hundreds and millions of my compatriots did. But mere participation does not give anybody the title of a specialist...