Word: adept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent estimate, no fewer than 20,000 organizations and 100,000 people-25% more than a year ago-now devote full time to seeking a share of U.S. industry's $60 billion-a-year investment in new plants. The hunters not only outnumber the prospects but are growing adept at raiding each other's territory for corporate game, often with the state's Governor leading the foray. Governor John McKeithen and a 17-man team of Louisiana bigwigs recently visited Pennsylvania for a fast sales pitch to 139 firms. Governor William Scranton, having enlisted 130,000 businessmen...
...dingy fourth-floor office, amassed enough capital in three years of flamboyant dealings to start Intra in 1951. To woo his share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes and frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt, Syria and Iraq, Bedas became adept at handling skittish clients. Once he even hauled a suitcase of stocks from his vault to the mountain mansion of a suspicious sheik to assure him that his hoard was really intact and safe with Intra...
...name of the game is Swotting the Americans for Fun and Profit, a sport for which the British are terribly keen, if not particularly adept. Two current swots offer little fun, less profit...
...psychological certainties, including the overriding importance of toilet training. "The Scott-tissue theory of personality is out of fashion," says Harvard Psychologist Gordon Allport. Now there is more general concern about "total relationship" between parent and child. Sometimes the children themselves become ardent pop-psychers. "No one is more adept than a child at using psychological terms as a substitute for reality," says Chicago Child Psychiatrist Dr. Ner Littner. "Nine-and ten-year-olds chatter away quite happily about sibling rivalry, talking of the urge they have to kill an older brother or sister. But adolescent psychologizing...
...music and drama festival in Scotland, tailored after the Salzburg Festival. He launched the Edinburgh Festival in 1947, and overnight it became one of the biggest and most successful arts pageants anywhere in the world. The master manager and logistician also became adept at dealing with the peculiar brand of hysteria that so often swirls within musicians' souls. Once an Italian orchestra threatened a walkout because there were no coat hangers in the dressing rooms. Bing merely explained that the Scots have this quaint old custom of hanging their coats on the backs of chairs. Accordingly, when...