Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that claimed 10,000 deaths last year had taken a toll in American lives. Killed in the massacre were José Rodolfo Viera, president of El Salvador's Institute for Agrarian Transformation, and two U.S. labor lawyers, Michael P. Hammer and Mark David Pearlman. Hammer, 42, an agrarian expert who had arrived in the capital the day he was killed, and Pearlman, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, were both employees of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an international arm of the AFL-CIO. The organization has been under contract to El Salvador...
...trouble started in 1955 when Ruth Crowley, the original Ann Landers, died, and the Chicago Sun-Times ran a contest to find a successor; Eppie won by loading her sample answers with expert advice from such stellar sources as Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Sister Pauline volunteered to help answer the backlog of 5,000 letters...
...about heroin and venereal disease in their advice to teenagers. Landers, based in Chicago, confesses that while disapproving of teen-age sex, she no longer believes that "every girl must hang on to her virginity until marriage or death, whichever comes first." Like Ann, who pioneered the use of expert advice in her column, Sister Abby refers many readers to psychologists, clerics and other specialized counselors-but never before investigating the service. A former World War II Red Cross aide, she has donned a blond wig to visit, incognito, a Gamblers Anonymous meeting in New Jersey, a suicide prevention center...
...move with more substantive policy implications, Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History, will be named the National Security Council's expert on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...
...might expect, little political criticism of his work on corals, termites or baboons exists. Only expert ethologists bother to scrutinize these sections, which constitute the bulk of Wilson's first book. Only when Wilson discusses humans does he receive the attention of a broad and motley audience of anthropologists, philosophers and historians. There are two possible explanations. One might be that while Wilson's analysis of species below homo sapiensis scientifically masterful, his discussion of humans is simply not up to par and his new audience is taking him to task. This is probably not the case. Instead, Wilson...