Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairman/NBC White House correspondent (dating); adroit on tennis courts and as dinner partners...
...laughing" remembering the man Clinton called his Rock of Gibraltar. "When I was told what happened," he recalled, "I just kept thinking in my mind of when we were so young, sitting on the ground in the backyard, throwing knives into the ground and seeing if we were adroit enough to make them stick...
...wizards who market soft drinks know that America is a fad-happy nation, and Pepsi has long been adroit at catching or creating the latest wave. But there is sometimes a dark side to the national thirst to be part of a trend. Jangling deep in the psyche of some souls, it appears, is an irresistible urge to be certified on the 5 o'clock news as a victim, a stoic survivor of sinister forces. Last week Pepsi found itself at the center of one of the weirdest such ripples of the media age, first as alleged victimizer, then...
...then coloration, then the fine tuning with wrinkles, scales, dirt. "You see skin moving over bones and over muscles," says ILM's Dennis Muren, who directed the project. "When the brachiosaurus walks, the weight of its chest makes it swing back and forth." Dippe believes the process is so adroit that, "if we had real dinosaurs, we'd probably still do it this way. Our animals don't get tired or hungry...
...classic small-market team," said Ted Simmons, the club's adroit general manager. "Take these four names -- Bobby Bonilla, $29 million; John Smiley, $18 million; Doug Drabek, $19 million; and Barry Bonds, $43 million. It would have added up to almost $110 million to keep them. We couldn't do it." So these days, Bonilla is a Met; Smiley hurls for the Cincinnati Reds; Drabek has jumped to his hometown team, the Houston Astros; and Bonds is a Giant, in both team and contract size. But don't hang the skull and crossbones at half-staff for the Pirates quite...