Word: adept
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...away from the bureau and giving it to a new agency modeled after Britain's MI5. But I don't see why a new force would be better than the FBI at gathering intelligence. The field agents I have worked with for more than 23 years are as eminently adept at tackling sophisticated criminal and terrorist enterprises as they are at investigating straightforward whodunits. What's more, creating a new agency would undermine one of the most important post-9/11 reforms--removal of the wall between the FBI's criminal and intelligence functions so that communication between agents...
...painful yet delightful flashback scenes, wonderfully adept at tugging on adolescent girl anxieties, set the tone for 13 Going On 30, a Big story of suburban New Jersey girl Jenna Rink’s ascension into kitten-heeled city-girl life with the help of a boy, a wish, and a “seven minutes in heaven” game gone wrong...
...Kristen is adept, realist, smarter than...
...with the public they entertain. Audiences nowadays are more sophisticated than they were even a few years ago, and are better able to understand the fakery of what they see and hear on the radio and at the movies. Intentionally or not, Simpson, Moore, and others have proven exceedingly adept at using this understanding to reposition themselves back in the public spotlight...
...this point, I’ve honed my asexuality to the point where I have become adept at budding and spores,” Hahn said. “My gametophytes are just roaming around the office...