Word: adeptly
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...China and when it can be introduced. Democracy is effective only when supported by the appropriate institutions and by cultural maturity. China is a vast country accustomed to imperial rule, where preserving overall harmony by suppressing individual freedoms is accepted. The current government is autocratic, but it is also adept at keeping the nation together by fast-tracking reforms. As an autocracy, moreover, Beijing can act with unparalleled efficiency for good, as shown in the massive rescue operation after the recent earthquake...
...shelter against biological storms. As a microbial drifter, you can literally travel the world, hopping from host to host when the opportunity presents itself or when conditions at your temporary residence start heading south. There's no worry about taking along life's necessities either-viruses in particular are adept at traveling light; incapable of reproducing on their own, they think nothing of co-opting the reproductive machinery of their cellular sponsors to help them spawn generation after generation of freeloading progeny...
...their ice cream shops to found Baskin-Robbins, now a global chain with more than 5,800 franchises. Newly out of the military, Robbins opened his first store in Glendale, Calif., in 1945 with money that he'd saved from his Bar Mitzvah. Throughout his career, he was an adept salesman, never missing an opportunity; for the Beatles' 1964 arrival in the U.S., Robbins created the flavor Beatle Nut in just five days...
...apartment while their parents dined with friends at a nearby restaurant. When Kate McCann went to check on them, Madeleine was gone. The story quickly hit the front pages in Britain and much of Europe, and remained a top story all summer. The McCanns - both physicians - proved adept at putting together a well-publicized global campaign to help find Madeleine. They enlisted the help of pop and sports stars, and even had an audience with Pope Benedict...
Many of the vehicles were TV station vans, their satellite transmitters hoisted like mechanical battle flags. Out of the assorted automobiles poured reporters and burly camera guys, the latter adept at shouldering aside the former for best position at a press conference. At this particular press conference, we were to hear from the family of amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, whose legs were chewed apart by a shark as he was swimming in the Pacific on Friday morning, and who died from blood loss a few minutes later, probably before his swimming companions could pull his snow-white body...