Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...irony is that while news programming is proliferating, news gathering is drying up. The networks have become adept at devising new and fancier ways of packaging the news, finding the human-interest angle and the life-style feature, gathering experts for Ted Koppel or Lesley Stahl to interview at night. What they are doing less and less of, however, is day-to-day coverage...
...Republican candidate for governor, William Weld '66, while undoubtably intelligent (summa cum laude Harvard College and Harvard Law) and highly regarded as a lawyer and federal prosecutor, has not proven himself to be as adept an administrator. For example while Weld was U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, his department's budget grew by 87 percent and its staff by 40 percent over five years...
JOHN JARVIS: PURE CONTOURS (MCA). Ten cuts to make the local fern bar tolerable. This Nashville keyboardist is so uncannily adept and writes such stay-put melodic riffs, he's likely to give New Age music a good name. He can certainly make it swing and even -- stand back -- rock a little...
Burton's script is most adept when it describes the mutual ignorance which characterizes relations between the two cultures. While Anne denigrates Japanese popular music by saying "I guess we [Americans] like to understand the words," the Japanese hostesses insist on calling her Mary because they think it is a more American name than...
...showed again just before leaving for the Soviet Union, Kohl has become increasingly adept at handling the spasms of angst about Germany. The immediate grievance was a statement by British Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley that the "uppity" Germans were plotting to take over Europe, and he would just as soon hand over the Continent to Hitler. What made the uproar worse was the widespread conviction that Ridley had only said what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thought. But Kohl wisely laughed off Ridley's remarks as "pretty silly," comparing them to his own gaffe about Gorbachev and Goebbels. Ridley was forced...