Word: adeptly
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...mountains rules out any use of wheels and armor. The landing force will have to walk and fight the opposition with the same light weapons the Talibs have. But the Talibs have been fighting for 30 years now. This generation has grown up with rifles in hand. They are adept at making ambushes. They know the terrain by heart. The landing force will not be able to protect its rear. All communication and supply lines will be vulnerable. Unless you mount fortified checkpoints along your lines, everything will be blown up, destroyed or stolen...
...Klebold, he told me, turn out to be loving and involved parents. It's not that they didn't work hard at knowing their son. Rather, he deceived them about who he actually was. Garbarino considers the Klebolds an extreme case of a common phenomenon, where children grow adept at hiding their vulnerabilities and dark secrets, while at the same time being exposed to influences that can translate their adolescent violent fantasies into reality...
...goal of eradicating HIV with drug therapy is surprisingly controversial. Most physicians have abandoned it; they have found HIV too adept at either hiding from the drugs or mutating to resist them...
...NATO is not sending its troops in as lambs to the slaughter. The rebels have so far proved politically adept at couching their demands within the frame of what might be acceptable to the West. For example, a separate Albanian territory in Macedonia was a non-starter, so instead the guerrillas announced that they were simply demanding greater civil rights in the Macedonian constitution. And that responsiveness to Western concerns makes them unlikely to resist disarmament altogether - after all, the current peace deal has been crafted precisely in order to remove the political grievances they cite in order to claim...
...what blissful nodding it can be. On 'Hot Shots II' the Beta Band - Steve Mason (vocals and guitar), John Maclean (samples and keyboards), Richard Greentree (bass) and Robin Jones (drums and keyboards), all in their late twenties - show themselves to be adept with both traditional melodies and electronic special effects. On "Human Being," for example, they open with a skittering drum machine beat that might impress a Jamaican dance hall producer, and, accompanied by piano, horns and synthesizers, proceed to harmonize Crosby, Stills and Nash-style before they let loose with pounding real-life drums and electric guitar. Mason...