Word: adeptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Classics didn't enjoy the remainder of the evening. The j.v. hoopsters struck back from the opening tap of the second stanza, displaying depth and hustle. Rutecki, who finished the evening with a game high 22 points, sparked the Crimson with near-perfect shooting and adept ball-handling...
...SIGNS OF IMMINENT TROUBLE for the current front-runner loom elsewhere. Carter campaigners are less than adept at poor-mouthing--reducing expectations so the results look good. Immediately after Iowa, political wisdom had it that Kennedy would be out of it if he didn't win both Maine and New Hampshire. yet his competitive defeat in the Maine caucus ended up as a moral victory, and now Carter is in the historically unenviable position of heading the pack into New Hampshire. Lyndon Johnson needed a big win here in 1968, Ed Muskie in 1972; Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern refused...
...pursuing loftier strains by studying composition and teaching at Manhattan's Juilliard School. When he took over the 56-member band in 1956, he had it play classics by Berlioz and Bach as well as newly commissioned pieces by U.S. composers-among them Goldman himself, who was as adept at rousing marches as he was at "serious" fare...
...advisers encouraged him. Cyrus Vance is, by nature and by his legal training, a problem solver and a conciliator, a troubleshooter rather than a theoretician. His approach to huge, complex challenges has been to divide and conquer them one by one. He is uncomfortable with, and not very adept at, historical generalizations or global grand designs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, on the other hand, is a well-established, if somewhat controversial, geostrategist. He began talking of an "arc of crisis" around the Indian Ocean more than a year ago. He is also an anti-Soviet hard-liner of long standing. But Brzezinski...
...liner, and in warm weather doors will be opened to an outdoor balcony. The architects, who designed the Ford Foundation building in Manhattan and the new wing of Deere & Co. headquarters in Moline, Ill., have always been masters of glass-enclosed interiors. The Bonfils site has shown them equally adept at providing dramatic vistas to the world outside...