Word: specialist
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This is the second time the Guatemalan government has exhumed a body for Harbury. In August 1993 a judge there ordered the exhumation of Everado's body but Harbury's forensic specialist found the corpse belonged to an 18-year-old male. Everado...
Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. But then Nyman -- who studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at King's College, London, with the early-music specialist and harpsichordist Thurston Dart -- concluded that an even better way to affect the fortunes of contemporary music was to write it himself. In 1976 he composed incidental music for a play by Italian librettist Carlo Goldoni at Britain's National Theatre. He quickly found his own Minimalist style in In Re Don Giovanni (1976), and when Greenaway came calling for the first of their 10 films together, One to One Hundred, Nyman found...
...sounds at first like another cruel tale from the world of corporate layoffs. Young IBM personnel specialist, 36, loses his job last July in cutbacks at the troubled computer giant. In dismay over leaving IBM -- the company where both his parents spent their careers -- young man plunges into the harsh job market. But there the miraculous happens: after a flurry of interviews, he is hired by Electronic Payment Services, a start-up Delaware company that processes credit-card transactions, for substantially more than his old salary. "I never knew how marketable I was," says Peter Dychkewich, the hero of this...
...given day the company has 1,400 scientists working in jobs around the country for hourly wages of up to $35. (Pharmaceutical firms seem to thrive on outsiders. In New York City last week, an agency called the Cantor Concern swiftly filled a drug company's order for a specialist to help the firm decide whether to keep its in-house printing facilities. The pay rate...
...part of the continuing fallout from the Oct. 11 crash of the ruble, Russian President Boris Yeltsin shuffled his economic team, appointing as Finance Minister Vladimir Panskov, a Soviet-era budget specialist who had been briefly imprisoned on bribery charges that were later dropped. Alexander Shokhin, Economics Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, resigned, saying, "The economy is becoming a hostage to politics." Yeltsin then promoted reformer Anatoli Chubais to first Deputy Prime Minister, charged with overseeing the ministries of Economics and Finance...