Word: adeptly
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...smiling, rather sweetly, and often part to emit bursts of spontaneous laughter. He tells jokes, though no one can quite remember the setups or the punch lines. He has two young sons (his daughter died 10 days after her birth in 2002) and a sparky wife who seems adept at summoning his lighter side. Still, it's difficult to imagine him indulging in frivolous pursuits. It comes as no surprise that he's the son of a Scottish preacher, a background that imparted what he calls "a sense of a moral compass," as well as a frugal lifestyle...
...combination of medications and lifestyle changes that works for them. In his case, careful attention to his triggers along with judicious use of a powerful painkiller has kept his headaches to a minimum. "It's a tricky thing to navigate a migraine," Schipper says. "You have to be adept at knowing your own patterns." But it can be done. And sometimes, knowing that relief is within reach is half the battle. --With reporting by Jeff Chu/London, Andrea Dorfman/New York, Harlene Ellin/Chicago and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...true, as Republicans hope, that two years in the congressional majority may burden Democrats with some perceived responsibility for the country's allegedly parlous state. But the presidency and the President will still tend to dominate the news and be held accountable--and the Bush Administration is proving particularly adept at providing ever fresh instances of scandal, pseudo scandal and incompetence to remind people they're in charge...
...true tragedy of Iraq is that it didn't have to be this way. I can't begin to say with absolute clarity how things might have worked out, but I have to believe that if we had been more adept at not alienating entire sectors of the Iraqi population and elites; if we had been smarter at the front end; if we had thought about reconstruction from the perspective of how much money we could put in people's hands so that they would know they had a steady stream of income; if we had figured...
...Beastly bosses don't reach the top because they're more gifted than the rest of us. They do so because they're more adept at practicing cutthroat office politics. I hope that Robert Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule, is right. I would love to see corporate America purge itself of the "bullies, louts and misanthropes" who make millions of workers' lives a living hell. Of course, I'm not holding my breath. Rick Ansorge, Hoover, Alabama...