Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saboteur "was remarkably adept in placing the glue in the readers andknew exactly where to squirt it," said Nathans...
Even though Greece and Turkey are both members of NATO, they have bickered constantly over airspace, territorial waters and the continental shelf, sometimes coming to the brink of war. Both long ago became adept at playing Moscow and Washington against each other: the Kremlin used the Cyprus imbroglio to try to weaken the Western alliance and to make all kinds of mischief in the eastern Mediterranean, from conducting espionage to sponsoring terrorism...
True enough, the democrats have not yet prevailed. Suchinda Kraprayoon, the general who made himself Prime Minister in April, stepped down Sunday after his coalition withdrew its support. But the generals in the past have proved adept at ruling through civilian figureheads. After 60 years holding the real power in the country, the military is deeply entrenched throughout society; these "businessmen in uniforms" own or control hundreds of enterprises, including two nationwide TV channels, 200 radio stations and their own bank. The army remains popular among peasants, who are still a majority of the population and provide most...
Strauss, who shares Texas ties with Bush and Secretary of State James Baker, is hardly a political naif. He understands that professional politicians are nothing if not adept readers of the public mood. He knows too that Western financiers are probably right to be wary of pouring too much money, too fast, into the Russian economy. But, like Richard Nixon, who recently criticized the Administration's "pathetically inadequate" support of Russia, Strauss also understands that leadership can help change attitudes. "It isn't that there's anything wrong with the Executive Branch or the Legislative Branch," he says...
...prove he can fill it. Although the show is an institution, it is Carson's institution, and Leno must make it his own. "Letterman," Leno says, "is a comedy show that happens to have guests. The Tonight show is a talk show that happens to have comedy." Leno is adept with the comedy; the guests are a problem. While Leno is peerless as a monologist, his interviewing is still amateurish. He sometimes seems like a guest on his own show, polite and admiring -- an usher at the wedding, not the groom...