Word: adeptly
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...become more adept with the little things. I no longer consult my roommates to see if I should go on a run or play tennis, but choices of more consequence, like finding an academic focus, still prove to be challenges...
Sometimes there were three of us, sometimes more. Sometimes it was even I who did the soliciting. So adept was I at burying my real feelings and compartmentalizing myself that I eventually had myself convinced that I enjoyed...
Unlike alcoholism, bulimia is easy to hide (except from mothers or friends who have also suffered from the disease). Like most people with eating disorders, I was adept at keeping my disease hidden, because I didn't want anyone to stop me. I was convinced that I was in control anyway and could stop tomorrow if I really wanted to. I was often tired, irritable, hostile and sick from this, but my willpower to maintain appearances was such that most of the time no one knew the true reasons behind...
...using electroencephalograms, Battaglia found that those with higher scores for shyness had lower levels of activity in the cortex, where sophisticated thought takes place. That suggested higher levels of activity in the more primitive amygdala, where anxiety and alarm are sounded. Shy children, Battaglia concluded, may simply be less adept at reading the facial flickers other kids use as social cues. Unable to rely on those helpful signals, they tend to go on high alert, feeling anxious about any face they can't decipher. "The capacity to interpret faces is one of the most important prerequisites for balanced relationships," Battaglia...
...Even at companies with top-notch outside managers, maintaining the bloodline remains paramount. At Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, tycoon Li Ka-shing has been among Asia's most adept at attracting external professional managers, but ultimately, observers believe he'll eventually pass on the chairmanship to his eldest son, Victor. "There's a history of trying to keep things in the family," says shareholder-rights activist David Webb in Hong Kong...