Word: specialist
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...fall they should be afraid of, but hitting the ground. Some participants describe the experience as "death survived." Susan Steade, 27, a San Jose writer, made two jumps in the summer of 1988. Says she: "Skydiving was a lot less scary." Lance Colvin, 30, a computer specialist in Santa Clara, Calif., is a veteran of 50 leaps. "You get sweaty palms, cotton mouth," he says. "But the jump is one of the most elating feelings. It's more emotional than physical." Successful jumpers invariably wear a glowing "postbungee grin" reflecting a mixture of ecstasy and relief...
Peterson says there have been efforts to increase faculty in American government, and cites eight or nine recent faculty searches. But Peterson, himself an American specialist, says that "all of these positions do not attract a large number of applicants...
When Dr. Stanley Hellerstein's two-year-old granddaughter Toba came to visit him in Kansas City last summer, his household garbage doubled. The reason: Toba's disposable diapers. That set Hellerstein, the chief kidney specialist at Children's Mercy Hospital, thinking about the 300,000 disposable diapers the hospital was using every year. At Hellerstein's urging, the hospital now swaddles its babies in cloth diapers that are provided by Kansas City's General Diaper Service...
...wider context, even though Canadians until recently owned more of California than Japanese did, it is the latter who are looked upon as encroachers. "I've heard more anti-Japanese sentiment in working-class bars than I can remember," says Richard Kjeldsen, a University of Southern California financial specialist on the Pacific Rim. Japan bashing easily becomes Asian bashing. The most famous case is the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin by Detroit autoworkers who thought he was Japanese. As late as 1985 and 1986, violence against Asians jumped 50% in Los Angeles County. Says Henry Der of Chinese...
...companies do not have to file for Chapter 11 to lure the new vultures. "There are many shades of failure," says Sanford Sigoloff, a turnaround specialist who runs the bankrupt U.S. operations of Australia-based Hooker Corp., which owns the B. Altman and Bonwit Teller department-store chains. Such troubled but solvent corporations as Wang Laboratories, the Lowell, Mass., computer maker that laid off more than 1,500 workers last year, have hired "workout" advisers to help pare down their debt. By pursuing a workout instead of bankruptcy, management can maintain control of the company and generally reorganize faster. "There...