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Subtleties and extenuations are, of course, present. The KTA Chairman is a very senior, respectable and adept official of pre-Park lineage and experience in international affairs. He may not always have to accede to the KCIA and might even stand against some of its pressures. It is also possible that the KCIA itself, a labyrinth with chambers of both cruelty and sophistication, might itself agree to grants with few strings, much as, apparently, in the case of Tongsun Park, whose scattering of largesse rarely accompanied intensive political demands. Perhaps, even, the KCIA kept its hands off this particular grant...
...after the war, he pushed for faster disarmament agreements with the Soviets. In fact, the specific means of waging war are not really in conflict with ways of rendering a future war less likely or deadly. At the Pentagon, Brown is considered a master of advanced technology and as adept at handling the bureaucracy as is Schlesinger. At week's end the betting, though hedged, was still on Brown...
...Czechoslovakian, and is pronounced to rhyme with "basic") looks a little like a White Rock girl who slipped off the soda bottle to spend a summer in the old Haight. That quality of naivete and simultaneous sophistication is an excellent tool for an actress, one that Spacek is clearly adept at using; although she insists "I don't think of myself as an actress. I am an actress, among other things...
Then the Radcliffe passing game began to gell, as the taller hoopsters pressed their advantage. Led by the adept playmaking of Caren Curry and Wendy Carle, the Crimson narrowed the scoring gap until with less than ten minutes left in the half, sophomore forward Hildy Meyers tied the score...
...renowned 19th and early 20th century cricket players. Whatever Pinter, an ardent cricket fan, may have intended by that, No Man 's Land is a hilarious mine field of gamesmanship. The English relish putting each other down socially, intellectually and psychologically, and some of them are formidably adept at it. Pinter does it to perfection...