Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knowles is a noted expert in enzymes and in the boundary between chemistry and biochemistry. Harvard police and the FBI are waging an informational campaign to make people aware of the mail bomb threat...
Near the western edge of the Everglades, there's a quiet spot where Gene Duncan goes to unwind. It sits at the junction of two canals, where a stand of willows and pond-apple trees provides a bit of shade. When Duncan, a water- quality expert working for the local Indian tribe, cuts the engine of his airboat, he can hear bullfrogs croak from the water lilies and the tails of - Florida garfish slap the water with a noise like popcorn popping. A pair of white ibis watch warily as alligators -- half a dozen of them -- drift toward the boat...
...rise to a privileged class increasingly independent of the government. Cuba's newest companies are state enterprises with quasi-private stockholders: foreign partners can repatriate their profits, but Cuban stockholders must plow any gain back into the company or it goes to the state. Harvard University professor and Cuba expert Jorge Dominguez notes, however, that it is just a short step to total privatization. Many older Cubans see the yummies as mere opportunists in this process. "The yummies want to be the new political and economic power," says a Havana businessman who discovered that only Communist Party members were allowed...
...mountain lets you. Why this is important is not clear, especially to those of us who do it. Once, in a pompous mood, I wrote, "We climb for the same reason that smoke rises and poodles bite doormen: it is our nature." This is baloney, but true baloney. The expert strung out below a featureless overhang knows it, and the ignorant weekenders who get in trouble are, for good or ill, plodding toward some such understanding...
...conversation helps explain why many Republicans were chortling last week at Clinton's decision to bring on David Richmond Gergen as his top spokesman, with the title of Counsellor to the President. While Gergen, 51, is regarded in Republican circles as an expert communicator and strategist, he is also known to be disorganized, undisciplined and often tardy -- characteristics he shares with his new boss. "If they are looking for a good analyst," said a Reagan White House veteran, "they have found one. But this is not someone who can make the trains run on time...