Word: competentes
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Hopes for businesslike treatment of U.S.-E.C. trade issues are encouraged by the personality and talents of the U.S. Trade Representative and chief negotiator, Carla Hills. She is seen in Europe as tough and competent but not much given to grandstanding or gladiatorial gestures. That is a good combination because...
In a play about performing, a director had better have damn good performers, and undergraduate director Eric E. Hyett has only mixed success in his Kirkland House production of the show. There are few in this mainly competent cast that dazzle the way the script calls them to. But what...
Wiesenthal's new editorial collaborators do not serve his purposes well. Instead of benefiting from Wechsberg's competent prose, this new autobiography has been translated from the German by Ewald Osers, and it is studded with Anglicisms like lorries, plimsolls, doing a bunk and getting the stick. And though the...
She admits that is a somewhat amorphous guarantee, but she says she hopes the blind students at Harvard will help her make competent policy recommendations in the future by telling her their needs.
The strategy backfired in 1988 when Michael Dukakis, one of the six remaining liberals in the country, won the nomination. Although he learned to appreciate Swedish land-use planning at the Kennedy School, Dukakis was still a Massachusetts Democrat, the worst kind. The dreaded epithet "liberal" stuck no matter how...