Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than four inches of rain have fallen on the Boston area since freshmen first arrived at school on September 9th, Harold Terben, National Weather Service specialist, said yesterday. Other parts of the country, however, have escaped the deluge. "As a matter of fact, it's dry in the western portion of the country," Pannuto said...
...Detroit. He parlayed that role into alliances with local Teamsters officials around the U.S., including some who were later purged during Carey's tenure because of corruption. And Hoffa's support "wasn't confined to the union's old guard," says Harley Shaiken, professor and labor-relations specialist at the University of California, Berkeley. It also reflected the Teamsters' unhappiness with its own place, slipping in the economy...
...Cerrito, Cal. firm was founded by Jeffrey D. Cook, director of admissions at Life College West--a small graduate school in California--and Jeffrey C. Moss, a communications and media specialist. For $25 an hour, they recommend schools based on surveys and interviews conducted at hundreds of colleges nationwide...
...course, there's still a stigma. A middle-aged Beverly Hills stockbroker paints his toes but only shows his wife, according to Jeanne Chavez, Hard Candy's sales v.p. And Glenn Watamanik, 35, a foreign-currency specialist, wore his electric-blue nails to work at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange--just once. "Younger people thought it was cool," he says. "But the more conservative look at you like you're crazy." Some men reserve nail polish for "let's go out" time--with or without a date. "Women come up to my friend who wears nail polish and have something...
...children intently watches the proceedings. The teacher is Salome Isofea, 30, a young healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua, in honor of a legendary Samoan warrior goddess who once saved the village from oppression and protected its forests...