Word: specialist
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...criticism of us as lawyers has been opportunistic and unrealistic. Nate is a respected criminal-law specialist, a former U.S. Attorney with a superb track record in prosecution and defense of criminal matters. He is conducting day-to-day negotiations with me and the independent counsel. Everybody asks me if I'm in over my head. Some people have asked why high-profile Washington lawyers weren't hired. But we needed just one good lawyer. And Nate was that man. We're both trial lawyers and ready for the task at hand...
Making the speech the big story seemed right, putting Clinton in the role that makes kids comfortable: leader, shaper of America's future. "There are very few heroes for kids today," points out Marissa Rosoff, a child-welfare and attendance specialist for the Burbank, Calif., public schools. "What's sad about this mess," she says, "is that kids like Bill Clinton: he's young, he likes Big Macs...
Brenda Schertz, an information specialist atthe Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hardof Hearing, says that being a deaf child in a classroom of hearing children is isolating...
When her world exploded last week, Tripp needed more than a friend. She found a willing lawyer in James Moody, a specialist in, of all things, farm regulations. But he is no backwater attorney. In fact, his involvement may signal that Tripp has been building strong ties to the conservative community over the past few months. Moody came highly recommended by George Conway, a conservative lawyer who was instrumental in writing the brief that resulted in the 9-0 Supreme Court decision in favor of Paula Jones. Still, Conway denied last week that he ever met Tripp or Goldberg...
Senator John Glenn, 76, learned last week that he'd soon have other things to dread. As a rookie payload specialist in NASA's shuttle program, he'll spend the better part of the next nine months reacquainting himself with the punishing business of flying in space. He will practice lift-offs, run through landings, learn how to shimmy out of a shuttle threatening to blow up on its pad or bail out 10,000 ft. above the ocean--all at an age when most Americans have long since retired...