Clinical experts (panel one) approached were international authorities on problem drinking, as well as experienced senior clinicians working within alcohol and other drug treatment settings.
History & an authority on "the problems people have been encountering in eating wild mushrooms", who has been giving an evening course on "Plants of the Wetlands".
A defeated dressmaker who takes in laundry, Mrs. Turnblad wears faded floral-print housecoats, scuffies, and Supp-hose, and speaks with authority on the marital problems of Debbie Reynolds and the Gabor sisters.
"Everything is so interconnected, so you feel sometimes that you can't fix anything until you fix everything," said Mayor Ernest J. Strada of the village of Westbury, talking at one point about a zoning question, but really addressing a deeper issue — the lack of a central planning authority on Long Island, a problem that exists in many suburbs.
Solihull council in the West Midlands has estimated that 18% of the authority's spend on problem families was devoted to just 3% of the families in its area.
According to Edmund Penning-Rowsell, the great English authority on Bordeaux wines, the problems of the 1940-44 period "were largely those of shortage of manpower to look after the vineyards and of chemicals to keep the vines free from disease".
Thus Walter, the detached authority on developmental economics and the problems of Third World countries, suddenly finds that his dry academic pursuits have become acutely personal.
The authority faces fiscal problems brought on by sharply higher fuel costs, declining real estate tax revenues and rising debt costs.
On my visit in February, he and Dr. Thane Pratt, an authority on Hawaiian forest birds, explained the problem.
Dennis Tourish, Britain's best academic authority on how hierarchies enforce obedience, has no problem with the comparison, however.
