Word: adeptly
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Sadr has proven increasingly adept at politics. Last summer, he ordered his hand-picked ministers out of Maliki's cabinet after the Prime Minister refused to demand a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops. To the public, it looked like he was taking a principled stand against the occupation. But the boycott did nothing to dilute his influence in the government. All the ministries his party once headed are still staffed to the gills with his followers, who continue to create jobs for other loyalists and operate Sadr's growing political machine. Sadr is, in addition to being a military...
...most dangerous weapon, had an off year, batting .331 but posting career-lows of three home runs and 17 RBI. While then-junior Matt Vance broke out with a .341 average and .519 slugging percentage and paced the team with 30 RBI, the rest of the Crimson lineup proved adept at getting runners on base but never quite figured out how to drive them in.“The way the lineup [shook] out it seemed that we took ourselves out of a lot of rallies,” senior outfielder Tom Stack-Babich says.The dearth of run production...
...McCanns themselves proved adept at keeping the story of Madeleine's disappearance on front pages throughout last summer. They secured an audience with the Pope, and enlisted celebrities like soccer star David Beckham to make appeals for the public to help find Madeleine. But the story went into overdrive early last September when Portuguese police investigating the crime named the McCanns as official suspects - a status they still officially hold...
...Well, their senses are so much smarter than ours. I mean, they're much sharper. Also they're physically more adept. If we had the jumping ability of a cat from a standing position, we'd be able to jump on the top of a two-story house. It's pretty amazing. The other thing is, animals are not hagridden by ideologies. There are no screens between them and reality, so they see things much more clearly than people...
Charles thinks that feelings like angst, disgust and anger may fade because as we get older we learn to care less about what others think of us, or perhaps because we become more adept at avoiding situations we don't like. (The Edinburgh researchers, too, found that older study participants scored lower than younger ones on scales of neuroticism - worry and nervousness - and higher on scales of agreeableness.) Oswald chalks up the midlife dip in happiness shown in his study to people "letting go of impossible aspirations" - first, there's the pain of fading youth and the realization that...