Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the KGB's foreign directorate has a smaller staff, it fields more agents than its American counterpart. Says a U.S. intelligence official: "The Soviets not only are very good, but they also outnumber the U.S. by a factor of at least two." Both agencies are adept at dirty tricks. "We still try to get them with broads, or find out the homosexuals, or if they have debts," admits a top CIA man. One U.S. agent became friendly with a man he knew to be a top Soviet operative in Africa. The Russian ran into financial trouble. Eventually...
...other girls are trying to fill it. Among them: > Carly Simon, 26, offspring of a branch of the publishing Simons (& Schuster). At Sarah Lawrence, she and Sister Lucy had a popular folk duo called the Simon Sisters. Carly's debut album on Elektra shows her to be an adept composer in a fair range of styles (folk, country, pop). As a singer, she can be dusky and down-home simple in One More Time, or full of poised wisdom in her top-20 single That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be. >Linda Ronstadt...
...Customer. The investigators proved adept at making end runs. At one point, they set up a table outside the bank's Park Avenue headquarters and asked customers there to fill out questionnaires rating the bank's services. (Sample questions: "Are there enough tellers?" "Have you ever been refused a loan?") From court records they obtained the names of loan customers who had been judged in default and interviewed dozens of them. They also conferred with ex-employees, banking scholars and Government regulators. Somehow, the investigators got hold of three secret studies, which the bank itself had commissioned...
...sons of neighbors, athletes and farm boys-unintellectual, mechanically adept-they did not fight for the Brave New World... There was no sense of the great cause," Blum said...
...weak elements in this production were those scenes in which the shipwrecked nobles of Naples and Milan wandered through the isle. For their scenes were so naturally acted that they almost seemed underplayed-against Prospero's forceful presence, there was little doubt as to who was in control. To adept what Pasternak has written of Hamlet, the order of the acts has been schemed and plotted, and nothing can avert the final curtain's fall...