Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than sympathy, of course, the party symbolizes stability to an unsettled society. "The P.R.I. will be stronger," says Delal Baer, a specialist on Mexico at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "In times of trouble, people seek refuge in what they know. They will turn to the P.R.I., with all its warts and flaws...
...news of the tiger kill spread through nearby villages, informants quickly led police to Raju. Mahadeswara hid but was arrested two months later. While Indian justice guarantees neither swift nor sure punishment, tiger specialist Ullas Karanth believes the shame and inconvenience of interminable court proceedings deter villagers, who lack the resources of wildlife traders. Raju says he regrets what he did and hopes to assist with antipoaching patrols...
...previous years China had slaughtered thousands of its tigers, claiming the animal was a pest that endangered humans. The massacre created a temporary glut of tiger bone -- more than enough to satisfy the traditional medicine market. Looking back on what happened next, Peter Jackson, chairman of the cat-specialist group at IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, in Geneva, says ruefully, "We should have seen this coming." Only in the late 1980s, he notes, after the Chinese had exhausted their bone stockpiles, did conservationists begin to notice unusual trends in poaching...
With roots going back to 1820, the firm takes its name from U.M. Rose, a founder of the American Bar Association. By the 1980s, when its growth took , off under the direction of C. Joseph Giroir, a securities specialist, it had long been the cream of Arkansas firms. Its list of present and former clients includes some of the state's biggest businesses, including Tyson Foods, Wal- Mart and TCBY, the national yogurt franchiser, as well as Little Rock Airport Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which oversees banks...
...fall of 1980 the FBI and CIA had launched Operation Courtship in the hope of penetrating the big KGB station in Washington. While Ames was in Mexico dining and cultivating KGB officers, the FBI netted two important Washington-based KGB spies: Lieut. Colonel Valeri Martynov, a scientific specialist who masqueraded as an embassy cultural- affairs officer; and Major Sergei Motorin, a political-affairs specialist. Their secret would not be safe...