Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mengistu, however, is a sticky problem. Those around him, sensing a dark future for the government, are keenly interested in negotiations. The President is showing signs of stress -- he needs to take pills to sleep -- but he still seems to think he can hold out. Says a U.S. government specialist on Ethiopia: "He's the type to hang on to the bitter...
Some hospitals have reported a dramatic increase in respiratory cases. Doctors in al-Ahmadi are seeing a rise in bronchitis and three times the usual number of asthma victims. Dr. Edward Beattie, a lung specialist at New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center, says there may also be cases of oil pneumonia, a potentially fatal ailment in which oil smothers the tiny air sacs in the lungs...
Harvard climbed back two minutes later, however, when man-up specialist Derek Maguire sent a blistering shot by Dartmouth netminder Will Wynperle to knot the score at eight. Crimson, 9-8 in Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth 4-4-0--8 HARVARD...
...first police thought a thief had murdered Army Specialist Anthony Riggs, who was shot in Detroit within days of his return from the gulf. But then the plot twisted when suspicion fell on Riggs' wife Toni and her brother Michael Cato, who were accused of killing Riggs to collect his $175,000 life insurance policy. Last week Judge Vesta Svenson dismissed the murder charge against Toni Riggs, ruling that Cato's confession could not be used as evidence against her because it violated her Sixth Amendment right to confront her accuser...
...costs. The government sets prices arbitrarily, so they bear no relation to the actual market value of the planes, tanks and missiles produced. The weapons programs were measured by input: so much steel, titanium and manpower. "The Defense Ministry simply ordered up weapons," says Abraham Becker, a senior Soviet specialist at the Rand Corp., "and the Ministry of Finance paid the bill. Finance didn't know whether the weapons were needed, and Defense didn't know whether they were worth the cost...