Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opponents of peace are adept at timing their deadly attacks to coincide with the resumption of momentum. Only two days before the bombing, it looked as if relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians were moving back to normal after a four-month chill. The standstill had been provoked by Netanyahu's decision to build a new Jewish settlement in mostly Arab East Jerusalem, and that in turn led Arafat to restrict security cooperation, curtailing intelligence sharing and easing up on commitments to collect weapons, jail militants and stop calls to violence. On the Monday before the bombing, Israeli...
...protected by a software "key" 129 digits long. Its creators had estimated that it would take 40 quadrillion years to solve the puzzle; the online team did it in eight months and in the process gave software designers new insights into building better security systems. Hackers have become so adept at finding security holes in the Internet that Netscape, maker of the leading Web browser, pays a bounty for any chinks in the program's encryption armor that are reported to the company...
...move this talent from backwoods clubs to big name arenas requires a business sense as well as a musical one, and in this sphere Jones is equally adept...
...presidencies, Duffy developed a reputation as a maverick with a knack for finding the unturned stone in even the most thoroughly trodden beat--most notably in 1986, when he broke the details of a top-secret U.S. attack on Libya 36 hours before the strike occurred. He's also adept at turning a story's thesis on its head, if that's what the facts demand. "Duffy's strength is that he has perfect radar," says senior editor Priscilla Painton. "He can instinctively sense where the story is going next and what the questions 10 days from now will...
...moreover, proved less than adept at massaging the egos of top producers. Bochco, for example, was furious when he belatedly found out that Tarses had decided against airing the last six episodes of his struggling drama series Murder One in April, as promised. He went over her head to Iger to protest. ("From his vantage point he had legitimate complaints," Tarses says. "It's all about the way you handle a situation.") Iger has since taken on the role of running interference between Tarses and some Hollywood heavyweights. When The Practice, a lawyer drama from producer David E. Kelley...