Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Takara was so adept at copying that it set some kind of Japanese record for chutzpah. Its first models were almost exact duplicates of the chairs produced by the leading U.S. manufacturer, Chicago's Emil J. Paidar Co. In fact, the parts were interchangeable. Thus, if an arm or footrest broke, Takara's distributors in the U.S. simply picked up replacements from Paidar, eliminating the need for expensive shipping or an even costlier service network...
...Nixon from the nation at large, Americans are probably less certain now than two months ago that the U.S. can steadily disengage from Indochina without enduring further crises. In the Senate, which has virtually forsaken its other business to debate Cambodia, the President's support has dropped noticeably. Adept maneuvering by Nixon's supporters will probably prevent the passage of any meaningful limits on his powers to conduct the war, but the Senate has informally served notice that it will not abide any further escalation...
...program's 370 graduates to date, 342 are holding down steady jobs (some devised by C.H.S. itself) in various public agencies, and many have proved more adept at dispensing social services than the professionals. "The women feel more at home talking with me," says Josephine Garcia, who now explains contraception, often in Spanish, to indigent maternity patients. Mrs. Garcia, separated from her husband, lives in a cramped apartment with her four children. As she puts it, her clients "can see I'm one of them...
Spanish couples have taken over thousands of domestic servants' jobs in Britain. According to one jaundiced Londoner, "they maintain an excellent intelligence service among themselves, and are adept at squeezing out salary increases by threatening to leave and go to a hated neighbor." Adds the same party snidely: "The au pair girls have a tendency to become pregnant or fall in love with their employers-sometimes both. But they have become an indispensable part of the British way of upper-middle-class life...
When Financial Impresario O. Roy Chalk purchased the D.C. Transit System in 1956, streetcars still rumbled through the nation's capital, passengers sweltered or froze in antiquated buses and the books were in chaos. Chalk promised a new deal, then set about proving that he was as adept at running an essential public service into the ground as the man he bought it from, Wheeler-Dealer Louis Wolfson. Things did get better for a time before they got worse, but today Washington's transit system is a shambles, threatened with financial crisis, a crippling drivers' strike...