Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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By skillful military management, Haig forged the various NATO members into a more cohesive fighting unit. He conducted more realistic maneuvers, with tanks and trucks squeezing through narrow village streets instead of rolling along the autobahns. Units were ordered to engage in simulated combat with no advance warning-a genuine...
The term robot comes from the Czech word for forced labor and was invented by Karel Capek and popularized in his "fantastic melodrama" of 1921, R.U.R., which stood for Rossum's Universal Robots. These robots look and behave like people and work twice as hard, but since "God hasn...
Some of One Trick Pony's scenes are so good (Simon and his band playing a game of "dead rock stars," Simon and his young son [Michael Pearlman] playing baseball or shaving, Simon struggling to be polite to his crass producer and record company president) they stand out like lighthouses...
The flat 3.2-mile course through the tranquil waters and Greek temples of Roger Williams Park, located six miles from the Brown campus, had a fork that took Harvard's number-three runner, Ellen Gallagher, way out of her way. And with her went the chance to beat a skillful...
The industry is openly borrowing production ideas from its archrivals, the Japanese. Says Ford President Donald Petersen: "They have a lot of good techniques, and we're starting to feed them all through the system." For example, the Japanese have become skillful at keeping a production line moving without...