Word: adroit
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...hesitate to endorse the way Pryor implemented this reform. Although Pryor was well within the realms of his power, it was rash of him to dissolve SAC in the way he did. He could have been more adroit in his intervention even though his motives and conclusions were justified and well-founded. The announcement comes as a devastating blow to many SAC members. They feel Pryor is being heavy-handed in his reforms for someone so new to the program. While SAC is not a typical student organization, some students are justifiably upset that they were not consulted by Pryor...
...case scenarios - Bush, dispensing tax breaks to the highest bidder, rides the prosperity into the ground, whooping like Slim Pickens; Gore, horrified at the thought of making money from human and environmental suffering, chokes the economy with regulation - and there's still likely to be the need for an adroit hand at the economic tiller. And that may be a different choice altogether...
...began a Harvard Summer School seminar Monday night called "How to Write the College Essay," an event that filled Sever 113 with high school students eager to hear a former admissions officer share the tricks of adroit essay writing...
McArtor plans to keep Legend aloft by following an adroit business strategy. The carrier uses nonunion labor and flies just one type of jetliner over a few choice routes. That way it can generate 27[cents] of revenue for every seat-mile it flies, compared with about 14[cents] for cost-laden major airlines--an advantage that should allow Legend to break even on flights that are little more than half full...
...students suffer the stigma of being slightly socially challenged but bright and technologically adroit. But MIT's fraternities have been doing their part of late to disprove at least the second part of the stereotype...