Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of us are not so adept. The White House called in the Secret Service. I had to get help from my local Internet provider, which managed to reduce the flow to about 50 messages an hour. Who knows what's going on at the congressional E-mailbox of Newt Gingrich, another victim? He has an automated-reply program that answers every E-mail that comes in. At week's end, millions of his form letters were still being beamed to Internet users all over the world...
From the Willie Horton ads to Proposition 187 in California to the recent attacks on affirmative action, the Republicans show how adept they are at playing on people's fears and prejudices. They are scapegoating criminals, people of color, immigrants, welfare recipients, etc. for the failures of the old capitalist economic system. It is a tactic as old as recorded history and is known as "divide and conquer" or "divide and rule." The amazing thing is that people never catch on. It works every time...
Last year I had a job which had previously been held by a Harvard student. Apparently he had been fairly adept at producing quality work but equally proficient at telling everyone else in the office how to do their job. For the first month (when they had no idea I was going to go to Harvard), my co-workers displayed an unceasing desire to explain how this kid represented every impression they had ever had about Harvard. They recognized that he was talented, aggressive, and driven, but they despised his attitude...
...himself is to be instructed in the art of seeing both sides of an equation. He thinks the Internet has been oversold, yet he's visibly excited about his equity interest in the Internet Shopping Network, an online retailer. He claims to despise hype and yet is manifestly adept at its use. He thinks Beavis and Butt-head are, as he once told Rolling Stone, "breathtakingly horrible. But great. No, not great. Good." One might be tempted to say that Diller embraces contradiction with Zen-like equanimity, although equanimity is probably not a strong suit in someone famous for screaming...
...have always been held aloft by the mast and spars of a concerned, active citizenry. This has been exemplified by the stout framework of a calling to public service, a concern for the public good and a charitable spirit of volunteerism. But no matter how seaworthy the craft, how adept the captain, or how steady the wind, without this structural integrity, even a great ship of state will eventually become paralyzed. Because today's concerned students are indeed stakeholders in the American Dream, they cannot afford to ignore the call topside--to stand their watch and serve their fellow citizens...