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Meanwhile, there had been a shake-up in the delegation. Kvitsinsky, a specialist on Germany, was transferred to Bonn as Ambassador so he could argue the Soviet case in fluent German against U.S. Envoy Richard Burt. Obukhov moved from INF to START, and his deputy, Lev Masterkov, moved up to be chief INF negotiator. Masterkov had a reputation as an "iron-pants" negotiator of the old school. There was debate among the Americans over whether his appointment meant the Kremlin was indeed ready to move to closure in INF and wanted someone who would get the best possible deal...
...which has been formulated by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG) and co-sponsored by 130 state representatives for 1988, is to force large producers of toxic substances to come up with proposals to reduce the amount of waste they produce, said Michael L'Ecuyer, the toxics policy specialist for MassPIRG...
Days later, Dr. George Selidovkin, a radiation specialist at Moscow's Hospital No. 6 who had been part of the Chernobyl medical team, arrived in Brazil after receiving an urgent plea from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The ten most severely irradiated patients, dressed in protective clothes, gloves, boots and caps, had already been flown aboard a military plane to the Marcilio Dias naval hospital...
...their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived, were amongst...
...Stock Specialists. Under close scrutiny last week was the manner in which brokers and brokerages "make a market" -- set a price -- on the big exchanges and in smaller over-the-counter markets. The N.Y.S.E. currently has one trader, or specialist, assigned to each stock on the floor. The specialist's job is to keep the market moving, if necessary by buying or selling out of his brokerage accounts. On Black Monday, specialists lost hundreds of millions of dollars while picking up stocks no one else wanted. But some specialists have been accused of staying purposely away from the money-losing...