Word: adroitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more of an advantage than it has proved to be. He can certainly point with pride to an economy that has made a strong recovery with a sharply reduced rate of inflation. Perhaps because people take prosperity for granted and fail to give credit to the President's adroit economic management, the issue has not yet clicked for him. Ford's most potent weapon at this stage is the series of polls showing that he would do somewhat better than Reagan against Jimmy Carter in November. Public Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich reported last week that should Carter stumble...
...Secretary is finding that Rumsfeld is a more adroit maneuverer than Kissinger's old opponent James Schlesinger ever was. Says an insider: "Rummy is a dummy as a SALT scholastic. But he's politically savvy as hell, and he's going around town saying the U.S. can live without a SALT agreement this year, and Kissinger's deadline is just that-it's Kissinger's deadline, not the country's or even the Administration...
...Enemies. Hua may have emerged as a compromise choice in part because his very lack of visibility made him a man with few enemies. Affable and softspoken, with a thick Hunanese accent, Hua is described by foreign visitors as politically adroit and nondoctrinaire. It helped that he comes from Mao's native province of Hunan, where he spent most of his career as a high regional party official and became an expert in agriculture, which is the backbone of China's economy. Significantly, he went to Peking just after former Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow...
...Wertmuller told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. "They seem to contain an independent life force-as if they could scream, curse, plead, argue and make love." Giannini, like Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni before him, fulfills the perennial audience yearning for a romantic image and the abiding need for an adroit actor of humor and mercurial sensibility...
...effects may be worth the price of ad mission, but the movie remains an adroit memorial to a technological curiosity, cold and incapable of touching us emotionally...