Word: adeptly
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B.C.C.I.'s careful control and influence over institutions and regulators are receiving the greatest attention in the U.S., yet pale in comparison with the bank's activities in the Third World, where by the early 1980s B.C.C.I. had become a potent geopolitical force. B.C.C.I. was especially adept at using offshore branches to help Third World countries frustrate attempts by international monetary authorities to force changes in their economies. The technique was perfected in Jamaica, where B.C.C.I. came to then Prime Minister Edward Seaga's aid when the International Monetary Fund refused to release $60 million of aid because of unpaid...
...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...