Word: adroit
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...complain that they were "cut from the same stripes," and Republican National Chairman Rich Bond sneered that the Democrats have "written off the rest of the country." Gore, however, does add some strengths to the ticket besides reinforcing its generational and centrist appeal. Like Clinton, he is an adroit balancer: he voted for the Persian Gulf war but maintained party credentials by vigorously defending the patriotism of the many more congressional Democrats who did not. Work on the Senate Armed Services Committee has given him expertise in foreign affairs and arms control, which Clinton lacks. He is a hero...
...does all that indicate that Saddam's grip is faltering? British intelligence analysts take exactly the opposite view: the boss of Baghdad has been able to liquidate his chief opponents, real or imagined. They add that Saddam has been playing an adroit game: doling out to the masses just enough of the food that comes through the United Nations-mandated blockade to keep them from starvation, while permitting privation that he can blame on the allies. Meanwhile he has rewarded the Republican Guard and other loyal forces with abundant rations and fat pay increases...
Despite Jack O'Brien's adroit staging, the production at Boston's Huntington theater suffers from the uneven acting and imperfect casting that can give regional theater a bad name. But as always with Gurney, there is deep ambition beneath the whimsy and nostalgia. His real subject is middle-aged males' yearning for the lost premise that underlay social dancing: the assumption that the man would lead. The central character -- a drab real estate agent organizing the Snow Ball -- looks up at three memorable debutantes of his youth, again installed in the Snow Queen's sleigh. He labels them goddess...
Imagine a more adroit Saddam armed with an intercontinental version of the Scud, and you've got the stuff of which a new nightmare is made. Arms control should make an attack by a Third World country on the U.S. less plausible rather than more so. To fend off scores or even hundreds of warheads, the U.S. needs not SDI but a network of ground-based interceptors at perhaps three to five sites. The ABM treaty allows only one site, but it could be amended to permit more. At the same time, the ban on testing and deployment of space...
...another adroit move, the Emir has called for an entirely new parliament to be elected in October 1992. "Too far away," says Abdullah al-Nibari, an opposition leader. But again, few seem to care so long as a date has been set. "In all of this," admits a U.S. diplomat, "the anti-Sabah factions have been hurt by President Bush's saying that the gulf war was not fought in order to bring democracy to Kuwait. The Secretary of State has admitted that Kuwait's government is not 'the optimum type of regime,' but when the President, who's considered...