Word: experts
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SUIT ENVY. British Aerospace has equipped its gulf-based employees with state- of-the-art protective gear. A British expert contends that the lightweight suits, which have a porous charcoal lining that breathes in the searing desert heat, are "much better than anything our own soldiers or the Americans have...
...this issue and to be published, like the previous two, by Little, Brown, a part of Time Warner Inc. This time Schecter, now an author and a founding editor of a new joint U.S.-weekly newspaper, did the translating and editing, in collaboration with Vyacheslav Luchkov, a scholar and expert on Soviet psychology. The title, Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, underscores the connection between Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Says Talbott: "As though anticipating what Gorbachev tried to do, Khrushchev even uses the word perestroika in his own appeal for sweeping reconstruction of the Soviet political and economic system...
...despite the constant barrage of denials, inventive legal interpretations and outside expert opinions lofted by Wise and his officers, state and federal examiners had compiled a disturbing account of Silverado misdeeds. But Silverado seemed to be leading a charmed life: the thrift was merely warned about its wayward banking methods and allowed to keep operating...
...Conceivably, the price could reach as high as $100, far more than enough to cause both a crippling recession, with widespread joblessness, and ruinous inflation throughout the industrial world. The U.S. would certainly retaliate with devastating bombing of Iraq. From Saddam's viewpoint, says one American expert on the Middle East, "the West bombs Baghdad, and he bombs the New York Stock Exchange." The Iraqi dictator would be betting that his nation could stand the physical destruction longer than the U.S. and allies could take the economic punishment...
...toward Baghdad that Democratic Representative Tom Lantos of California last week called "obsequious" and "based on fiction and fantasy." The fiction, as Bush concedes, was that "there was some reason to believe that perhaps improved relations with the West would modify his behavior." Bush and Baker, neither of them expert in Middle East affairs, were advised to pursue that course by their moderate Arab friends, especially Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Hussein...