Word: adeptly
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...with Iraq’s acceptance of U.N. weapons inspections, Woodward analyzes Bush as a wartime president. His portrait is flattering: the public Bush has his faults, but his apparent passion for justice and humanitarianism on a global scale outstrips his malapropisms. The more compelling Bush, however, is the adept facilitator of the numerous cabinet meetings faithfully reconstructed by Woodward...
Carly Fiorina has long struck a tone of defiant self-assurance, and it's beginning to seem justified. The CEO of tech giant Hewlett-Packard proved adept at playing Wall Street hardball, leading her company's ferociously contested proxy battle to buy Compaq Computer for $19 billion. She promised big benefits from that acquisition and last week began to deliver them. HP's quarterly earnings report showed the company stemming losses in its most troubled divisions--PCs and corporate computer systems--and surpassing its cost-cutting goals. HP shares have surged 72% since early October, including 15% last week...
...marketing background was not fit to run HP. But she still faces formidable challenges, starting with generating profits in PCs and corporate "enterprise systems" at her newly merged company, which posted $35 billion in revenues in its first six months. Can she go from being a Churchillian leader, adept at giving a "We will never surrender" speech, to being more of a Lou Gerstner, IBM's former CEO, who was able not only to slash costs and jettison unpromising lines of business but also to steer the company toward new prospects and profits...
That wasn't an option, in Gore's view, what with Bush promising at every campaign stop to restore honor and dignity to the White House. Gore concedes he might have been more adept at pointing out the difference between "a single personal mistake on the part of the President and one of the greatest records of success that any Administration had ever compiled." But had the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 the other way, Gore says ruefully, some of his critics might be saying, "You threaded the needle pretty skillfully on that...
...there's more to Chirac's diplomacy than concern for the U.N.'s authority. On Iraq, Paris is anxious to bolster its political and economic position in the Middle East. French companies have considerable investments in Iraq, including in the oil industry. In Europe, too, Chirac is equally adept at playing the statesman and defender of the national wealth. He thwarted efforts to reform the cap, and when Blair objected - noting that cap's trade barriers on food hurt poor African countries, about which the French President professes to care so deeply - Chirac told the British Prime Minister...