Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discussions operate on a "passionate" rather than academic level, and that everyone's individual response is considered and appreciated. Also, the professors are not art historians, but instead discuss their "hobby-level" interest in art, or how they apply art to their particular field of study. Rosemary Joyce, a specialist in Meso America, gave a talk on Chang dynasty pottery, and Agitprop's schedule for next year includes notables such as David Layzer on the Russian Constructivists, Stanley Hoffman on David's drawings of the coronation of Napoleon and Graham Boone on the Harlem Rennaissance...
Joint appointments in comparative literature, music, social sciences, history and art are all planned, as well as the arrival of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, a specialist in religious history who will join the department next year...
Eric N. Jacobsen, a specialist in organo-metallic catalysts, has accepted a tenured position in the Chemistry department...
...continued to press about the dangers of exposing people to gas. Anesthetic gases might knock people out, but there was no guarantee that they would wake up, ever, especially the small children. Strong men would be knocked out last, or not at all. The FBI brought in a leading specialist on the toxicology of tear gas, whom Reno debriefed for hours. She approved the use of tear gas only after being assured that the form the FBI was using was not permanently harmful, carcinogenic or a possible cause of birth defects...
...alone could open the seven seals and foresee the end of the world. FBI agents made some effort to get a handle on the theology at work, but scholars have been trying to explain these passages for centuries with little success. Among those they consulted was Phillip Arnold, a specialist in apocalyptic faiths whom Koresh respected. He was happy to serve as theological bait, a means of helping Koresh get his message out to the world and thereby bring about a peaceful resolution...