Word: adroitly
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...some of the same problems that bedeviled Aspin from the day he stepped into the job, including gays in the military and the question of when and how American forces should be used in a world of small regional conflicts. It also remains to be seen how even an adroit bureaucratic navigator like Inman will manage to court the brass while squeezing their budgets. But from the start it appeared that he would have the stature with both the Pentagon and the public that Aspin never achieved. Even Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, a man accustomed to shaking his head mournfully...
Call it a nexus, a linking of best-seller components: war, romance, treachery and the sort of cross-cultural trim that has Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor strike, spouting about American baseball. He hates the Yankees for their brute power and likes the adroit Cardinals because "they play the game more like we do." This used to be called sneaky, though Deford, a veteran sportswriter, scores one for international correctness when Yamamoto notes that Westerners use the term "element of surprise" when referring to their own wily tactics...
...early years of commonwealth, adroit use of Section 936 and other incentives raised Puerto Rico from dire poverty to one of the highest living standards in Latin America. But progress has stalled. Industrial development has failed so far to move the island's per capita income close to mainland levels. Unemployment is now 18%, and half the people get some form of public assistance. This year Congress voted to reduce the 936 tax benefit starting in 1994. Statehood would accelerate 936's demise. "It would be a disaster," says Alex Maldonado, a former newspaper editor who is writing an economic...
Through some adroit lawyering, Faal turned that mistake to a decisive advantage. Ordinarily, juries that fail to find a defendant guilty on a serious charge have the option of convicting on a lesser one not specified in the original indictment. At the conclusion of trial testimony, Faal took a crucial gamble. Exercising a right of defense, he moved successfully to have Judge John Ouderkirk instruct jurors that if they failed to convict Williams of premeditated attempted murder, they could not consider a lesser charge. That left jurors no choice between attempted murder and acquittal on that most serious count...
...chairman/NBC White House correspondent (dating); adroit on tennis courts and as dinner partners...