Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even today, the disease is diagnosed "by elimination," Elizabeth Penney, the public health nursing advisor specialist in the state's venereal disease program, said yesterday. "If we see a male with a discharge and we culture it and it's not gonorrhea, then we treat for NGU," she explained...
...specialist in Islamic philosophy and law, Khomeini lives the typically ascetic life of a mullah and hardly looks like a political leader who could galvanize a nation. Yet no less a personage than Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian Ambassador to the U.S., tried to pay a call on Khomeini in France. The reported purpose of the visit was to persuade Khomeini to return to Iran and help defuse the crisis. But Khomeini refused to see the ambassador. He will not return to Iran, he insists, until the Shah's rule has ended. Last week TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis interviewed Khomeini...
...always in agriculture, a diverse industry, one farmer's good fortune may result from another's pinch. An agricultural-loan specialist for California's Bank of America asserts: "You'd have to be pretty incompetent not to make money in cattle this year." Reason: a combination of high prices for meat and relatively low costs for corn and other feeds that has corn growers grumbling. Vegetable growers in central Florida are selling big crops of lettuce at prices that have been pushed abnormally high by the winter-spring rains that made California lettuce scarce and unappetizing...
...involving quantum electrodynamics?faculty members are eagerly sought out for advice by business and government. Faculty members are permitted up to 52 days annually of outside consulting work, which supplements salaries averaging $28,100. Caltech's past president, Harold Brown, was so well known as a top nuclear-weapons specialist that Jimmy Carter whisked him from Pasadena to become Secretary of Defense. Large high-technology companies, such as Beckman Instruments and TRW, both founded by Caltech alumni, value their close ties to the campus. So too did Los Angeles Businessman Norman Church. Wrongly accused of drugging a horse that...
...just started weaving back and forth with about a quarter-mile left and I tried to finish, tried to hold onto my position, but my legs just stopped," he said. "These legs of mine are just not made for cross country," McNulty, a one-mile specialist in track, added...