Word: specialist
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...wasn't over. Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, known as a specialist in parliamentary technique, changed his vote to favor the override so that Senate rules would permit him to move that the vote be reconsidered. He then managed to postpone a vote on this motion by further maneuvering, in order to buy time for pressuring Sanford...
Elizabeth Stern diagnosed herself as having a mild case of multiple sclerosis. But the couple did not have a specialist confirm the diagnosis until late 1986, did not inquire whether the disease affected her ability to bear a healthy child, and did not seek to adopt a child. William Stern wanted a genetic link. Yet if Sorkow is to be believed, these facts reveal nothing about the Sterns' fitness to be parents...
...containing the private notes of every NSC officer with a password. In response to requests from the Tower commission, White House Communications Agency programmers searched their storage tapes for NSC memos and eventually turned over a stack of printouts nearly 4 ft. high. Explains Donn Parker, a computer security specialist at SRI International: "It is so ingrained in computer operators that they have to preserve data that if you tell them to erase a disk, the first thing they do is make a backup tape...
...beleaguered news division, some 230 of 1,200 staffers had been let go, part of an effort to slash $30 million from the news operation's annual budget of nearly $300 million. Among the casualties: three bureaus (Warsaw, Bangkok and Seattle), 14 on-air correspondents (including Law Specialist Fred Graham and Economics Contributor Jane Bryant Quinn) and scores of other employees, ranging from low-paid support staff to veteran producers...
Youngsters may not fully understand the finality of their action. Chicago Psychologist David C. Clark calls this the Tom Sawyer syndrome, in which teens imagine they are staging their own death. Says Barbara Wheeler, a suicide- prevention specialist in Omaha: "I don't think they think about being dead. They think it's a way of ending pain and solving a problem...