Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privately that 39 men no longer in the active priesthood (1.7% of the total clergy) were molesters, while 14 others showed "immature behavior" that was not serious. Second, the committee fashioned a new procedure for complaints. Parishioners will have access to a 24-hour phone hotline. A full-time specialist working with a panel of six laity and three clergy will assess all charges. Priests who are judged guilty will undergo two years of intensive therapy and four years of follow- up, then get church assignments where they will never again work with minors. Instead, the commission recommended that rehabilitated...
Bradlees' media relations specialist Coleman Nee commented that their Boston store may start selling Super Soakers again once they find out more about how the community feels. Nee said no consumers had ever asked them to stop selling it or ever said it was dangerous, yet the store had to act in the interests of the city of Boston, as represented be the mayor...
...just a water gun? Wasn't Murphy Brown just a TV show? Maybe a harmless entertainment is being blamed for unrelated social problems. Greg Miller, media relations specialist for Child World toy stores, certainly thinks...
David Marsh, a specialist in the genetics of allergy at Johns Hopkins, believes his laboratory has found evidence of a recessive gene that is at least partly responsible for susceptibility to allergies. And allergies indeed tend to run in families. If one parent has allergies, the odds are that close to 1 in 4 of the children will also be allergic. If both mother and father are allergic, probably most of their offspring will...
...assistance and taking in 115,000 refugees -- almost twice as many as Hungary, which has the second largest influx. Germany's appeal owes much to its 800,000 guest workers of Yugoslav origin. "Practically everybody has a relative or a friend living in Germany," says Wolf Oschlies, a Yugoslav specialist at Cologne's Federal Institute for Eastern European and International Studies...