Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American team hired two young men, Braynin's son Alan and Steven Moore, a public relations specialist from Washington, to assist them, and promptly established its office in a two-room suite at the President Hotel. The Americans lived elsewhere in the hotel and were provided with a car, a former KGB agent as a driver, and two bodyguards. They were told they should assume that their phones and rooms were bugged, that they should leave the hotel only infrequently, and that they should avoid the campaign's other staff members...
...Americans were "vital," says Mikhail Margolev, who coordinated the Yeltsin account at Video International. Margolev had worked for five years in two American advertising agencies but freely acknowledges that his methods are still influenced by his earlier tenure as a propaganda specialist for the Soviet Communist Party and as an undercover KGB agent masquerading as a journalist for TASS, the Russian news agency. "The Americans helped teach us Western political-advertising techniques," says Margolev, "and most important, they caused our work to be accepted because they were the only ones really close to Tatiana. She was the key. The others...
...White House has moved Livingstone out of his job as head of the personnel security office. It is being reorganized by Charles Easley, a former Army counterintelligence specialist who worked for both Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Otherwise, the Administration has been trying to dismiss the latest developments in Whitewater/Fileflap as a G.O.P. attempt to find an election issue. It's campaign season, says a senior Administration official, when "every mistake is a conspiracy, every charge is a conviction, every rumor is reality...
...father was taking Ayurvedic medicine, the traditional Indian herbal cure, for a heart condition. The doctor disapproved. "His success in the system demanded his belief in the system," Chopra writes, and from London he "demanded that my grandfather abandon this nonsense and call in a Western-style heart specialist." The old man did, "and died two weeks later...
George is a mergers-and-acquisitions specialist who has been the victim of an unfortunate divestment, left at the altar by his sassy, tousle-haired fiance. But this isn't an episode of Must See TV, so George doesn't seek solace from close friends and a laugh track. Instead he goes to Paris and befriends a beautiful French zookeeper named Julie whose wardrobe, despite the potential grubbiness of her work, is limited to lace sweaters and snug-fitting leather bell bottoms. "You're so sexy," George tells her, "even the wild animals love you." That line wouldn...