Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dennison Rusinow, an expert on the Balkans at the University of Pittsburgh, believes that had it not been for Milosevic's heavyhandedness in Kosovo five years ago, Yugoslavia might still be intact today. "Kosovo provided the fuse," says Rusinow, "and Milosevic provided the detonator that has now led to explosions across the whole country...
...powerful, however. Many Thais agree with Sukhumbhand Paribatra, a political-military expert at Chulalongkorn University, that "what we are witnessing is the military's last hurrah. The last few days' violence was its dying gasp." But he adds that he "can't say when, how or at what cost" a civilian-led democracy will prevail. In fact, the death watch on military rule, if it really is that, may well drag on through weeks, months or even years of tension, turmoil, renewed demonstrations and possibly even more bloodshed...
...scale gains are especially dim at a time when more than 7% of all U.S. workers are jobless. "If you are going to have a workfare program in a slack economy, the whole program will collapse," says William Julius Wilson, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and an expert on poverty. "People will get training for employment, but if there aren't jobs out there, in the long term, it is just going to be self-defeating...
...were prepared for anything. Even now he insists he had reviewed detailed plans for dealing with civil unrest with his commanding officers. But none of these purported preparations were visible once the rioting started. In fact, it seemed as if there was no plan at all. As law-enforcement expert Charles Beene, a retired San Francisco police captain, explains, "You must have plans in place: upwardly escalating in response quicker than the looters can. When the bad guys see no response, they instantly up their tactics: burning, looting, assaults...
Will recently quit work and sold the rights to his artificial intelligence expert system called First Class. Now he is "unemployed," although one gathers that the proceeds from the sale are enough to support him. Nailing rafters in the garage, he looked as comfortable with a hammer as he probably does with a keyboard...