Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college hockey game flows around the man-up and man-down squads, according to Flomenhoft--an expert on penalties with 48 minutes in the hot box this season. All three roommates take shifts on both special teams squads, with Drury on both the first power-play unit and penalty-killing line...
...westernmost assault, the French demonstrated that they were expert at desert combat as well. With its Foreign Legion components, France's 7,600-man 6th Light Armored Division conducted one of the most spectacular feats of the war, racing across 105 miles of Iraqi territory to seal off enemy avenues of retreat. The flanking movement blitzed to capture an airfield at the fortified town of As Salman. French Defense Minister Pierre Joxe boasted that impressed U.S. officers likened the troops to a "high-speed train...
...flexibility in their studies. They can take elective courses either in their major subjects or in the humanities and sciences, and of course spend a good deal of time absorbing the new battlefield thinking that has emerged over the past two decades. The Pentagon, says Martin Binkin, a defense expert at the Brookings Institution, "literally rewrote the textbook on war. It's a new ball game in every way. The battle cry is 'Fight smart!' " The merits of that approach are written all over Operation Desert Storm...
...said he chose the five finalists after speaking with the all-male group of nine semifinalists during the past month and reviewing recommendations written by two expert and citizen advisory panels. The panels interviewed the candi- dates in early February, judging each one for his leadership, innovation, community involvement, multi-cultural sensitivity, overall ability to improve police operations and ability to communicate orally, Healy said last month...
...experts say that is not likely to happen. Although putting out the fires could be a difficult and time-consuming task, Kuwait's 94.5 billion-bbl. oil reserves will hardly be dented. Depending on how much damage has been done to other facilities, production could resume within six months after the end of hostilities, Kuwaiti officials say -- though it may be years before output reaches prewar levels. "They will not lose enough to threaten their reserves or their economy or the world oil market in the long term," said an American oil expert...