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Word: adeptness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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More striking than the size of the Pentagon's proposed cutback was the timing of its announcement. Bush has become adept at letting the most conservative Cabinet members announce liberal-sounding policy changes that could anger the Republican right. It thus fell to Cheney to disclose that the Pentagon is examining conventional-weapons cuts that would go beyond Bush's plan, unveiled at last May's NATO summit, to reduce U.S. and Soviet forces to 275,000 each. Some Pentagon officials are worried that the talk about reducing defense spending could, in the words of one, give some allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Going To Meet the Man | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Once welcomed as liberators of a land enslaved in Somoza servitude, the revolutionary F.S.L.N. has proved adept at only one thing: holding on to misused power. -- Leaders of Israel's Labor Party threaten to pull out of the national-unity government. -- By meeting with Botha, South Africa's Mandela gives his blessing to direct talks between blacks and the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vol. 134 No. 4 JULY 24, 1989 | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...conservative, too resistant to change. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the party was the agent of cataclysmic change -- but on behalf of a conspiratorial elite, not, as it claimed, on behalf of the people. Over the decades, the self-professed vanguard of the proletariat became adept at fighting rearguard actions against innovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China and the Soviet Union: Fighting The Founders | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

Whatever the location, though, the Evangelicals are handily winning the game of enlisting members. Most mainline churches do not consider it their mission even to compete. Despite mainline emphasis on racial justice, conservatives in , the Southern Baptist Convention and Assemblies of God are more adept at recruiting urban blacks and Hispanics, just as they are more successful at planting new churches in growing suburbs. When John Vaughn of Southwest Baptist University compiled a list of America's fastest-growing Protestant congregations, 445 of the 500 were outside the mainline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Those Mainline Blues | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...Moscow, again displays wit and charm. But here he provides a much more intriguing narrative -- full of time shifts, inner thoughts revealed, imaginary moments, even a flash-forward in which the now dead grandmother describes her search for "life after eternity." This complex material stays clear, thanks to adept direction by Lynne Meadow and remarkable performances by Jennie Moreau as the girl, Eileen Heckart as her tart-tongued grandmother and especially Joanna Gleason as the woman in between, the focal point of family guilt. Eleemosynary, which has ripened in regional productions, is Blessing's finest work, an enriching tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Willful Women, Home Truths | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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