Larry let it slip at the pub that night that he was a lawyer with a specialty in land use.
But while his adventures typically took place in the library, colleagues said that Dr. Gould, whose specialty was Cerion land snails in the Bahamas, was also impressive in the field.
Mr. Wadi, chief executive of Holy Land, a specialty foods producer here, has in the last few years broadened the palette of hummus, and its appeal.
Inspectors came and went from a Walmart-certified factory in Guangdong Province in China, approving its production of more than $2 million in specialty items that would land on Walmart's shelves in time for Christmas.
Sears generates about $1.1 billion in free cash flow annually funds that could be used to acquire more specialty retailers such as Land's End, which Sears bought last year for $1.8 billion.
Several flagship phones were announced at the show, too, and only half include a headphone jack if specialty phones like the Land Rover Explore and Cat Rugged S61 are excluded from the dataset (those models have a headphone jack but will only sell in limited amounts).
It's all the result of work by 100 in-house visual artists at Uncharted Territory, the company owned by the "2012" co-producers and digital effects supervisors Volker Engel and Marc Weigert, in addition to artists at 14 other outside companies with specialties in simulating water, land, buildings or humans.
Waterfront works are the specialty of George Trakas, a veteran land art practitioner who also created a dock on the Hudson for Dia:Beacon.
The way water moves over land is his specialty, so even when the levees burst last Monday he didn't budge, because he knew the waters of Lake Pontchartrain, six miles away, wouldn't rise any higher than his curbstones.
Crouched on the ground under the shade of a bamboo, using a single iron cauldron on a charcoal brazier, she could produce all the classics of Haitian cuisine: goat stew, chicken with green cashews, and her specialty, a dish made of land crabs that I have never tasted anywhere else.
