Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help," proclaimed Secretary of the Treasury James Baker in an internationally televised session with foreign reporters the week before. His point: the U.S. economy can no longer be the locomotive pulling the rest of the world behind it to vigorous growth. Others would phrase the problem more bluntly: some deft cooperative footwork may be needed to prevent an American slowdown from setting off a world recession...
...have been Ronald Reagan's worst week in the Oval Office. His deft touch at manipulating political symbols faltered; the continuing storm over his planned visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg on Sunday put the President in a painful predicament with no graceful way out. His vaunted powers of persuasion could not avert a stinging defeat in the House, which killed all proposals for U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras for now. The Soviets turned more than normally truculent, and the U.S. economy developed some worrisome rumbles. Reagan's eternally sunny optimism for once clouded over...
Coffey joined the Post in 1968 fresh from the University of Virginia. After a four-year stint as editor of the paper's Sunday magazine, he took over the Style section in 1976. Coffey won a reputation as an imaginative editor who had a deft hand with journalists as well as copy. An intense worker who sometimes called writers late at night to discuss stories, Coffey shook most of the fluff out of Style's pages and introduced more late-breaking news. Named an assistant managing editor in charge of national news in December, Coffey was considered a contender...
...much the same way that his mentor and predecessor Andropov was a skillful conductor of the anti-Euromissile campaign, Gorbachev is likely to be a deft opponent of Star Wars. Once again, the campaign will be pitched largely to the West Europeans who are skittish about the possibility that Star Wars research will lead to testing and deployment of systems that will provoke a new, extraterrestrial arms race...
...third of the courses taken outside a student's concentration. These dual exemptions offer the politically minded honors candidate a rewarding exercise in gerrymandering; courses can be juggled to achieve the optimal mix of grades in the various categories. Thus, by employing a simple sleight of hand, the deft senior tutor or undergraduate can shroud sub-standard grades in new-found respectability...