Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration officials had assured friends and reporters that no gays would serve on Ronald Reagan's AIDS advisory commission. Thus conservatives and liberals alike were astonished last week when the President appointed Cancer Specialist Frank Lilly, an avowed homosexual, to the 13-member panel. Lilly, chairman of genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, holds doctorates in organic chemistry and biology and has studied viruses similar to AIDS for 20 years...
...offense: the craggy-faced Arthur Liman, 54, a New York City trial lawyer whose sharp questions had already lacerated such witnesses as Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. A partner at the prestigious firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Liman (estimated annual salary: $1.1 million) is a specialist in white-collar crime. Last January he joined the Iran-contra investigation for what he calls the greatest challenge of his career. For the defense: Brendan Sullivan, 45, a partner at Washington's best-known criminal- law firm, Williams & Connolly. Despite his mild appearance, Sullivan is a tireless worker and tenacious courtroom...
...good for back pain. Orthopedist Steven Garfin of the University of California at San Diego gives cautious approval. "Patients tend to do a little better in terms of range of motion and comfort on the water bed than conventional bedding," he says. But Dr. Rene Caillet, a rehabilitation specialist at Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center, is unconvinced. "If you lie on your stomach, the water bed allows you to increase the sway or the sag of the back," he notes...
...member Supreme Soviet, the country's largely ceremonial parliament, met last week to endorse the sweeping economic and political reforms approved a few days earlier by the Communist Party Central Committee, Moscow's intelligentsia was buoyant over another Mikhail Gorbachev initiative: a Marxist propaganda specialist, who has been known to make virulent attacks on the U.S., was promoted to the ruling Politburo. Normally that would cause groans among the intellectual elite, not cheers. But this propagandist is Alexander Yakovlev, and his promotion during the Central Committee meeting to full membership in the Politburo is being widely interpreted as a victory...
...successful Mikhail and Raisa road show. He accompanied the Gorbachevs on their first official foreign trip -- to London in 1984 -- and then to Geneva and Reykjavik. The payoff has been measurable. "Look what has been happening in West European attitudes toward the Soviet Union," said a diplomatic specialist on Soviet propaganda. "The opinion polls tell you why Yakovlev was promoted...