Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Riyadh was destroyed by a Patriot missile. But 1,500 sorties have been directed against Scuds, the most against any single type of target, and that has delayed and lessened the assault against such other vital targets as supply lines and the Republican Guards. Also, Iraq has proved more adept than expected at repairing runways, roads, radar and certain communications lines, forcing allied planes to hit some of those installations again and again...
...planes could try to attack U.S. troops and tanks launching the final ground assault, quite possibly spreading poison gas. During the long war against Iran, Iraqi pilots and gunners proved adept at using chemical bombs and shells, and Saddam has immense reserves of artillery...
...irony is that while news programming is proliferating, news gathering is drying up. The networks have become adept at devising new and fancier ways of packaging the news, finding the human-interest angle and the life-style feature, gathering experts for Ted Koppel or Lesley Stahl to interview at night. What they are doing less and less of, however, is day-to-day coverage...
...Republican candidate for governor, William Weld '66, while undoubtably intelligent (summa cum laude Harvard College and Harvard Law) and highly regarded as a lawyer and federal prosecutor, has not proven himself to be as adept an administrator. For example while Weld was U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, his department's budget grew by 87 percent and its staff by 40 percent over five years...
JOHN JARVIS: PURE CONTOURS (MCA). Ten cuts to make the local fern bar tolerable. This Nashville keyboardist is so uncannily adept and writes such stay-put melodic riffs, he's likely to give New Age music a good name. He can certainly make it swing and even -- stand back -- rock a little...