Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jobs is deft at dealing with his peers and elders in commerce, a comforting combination of overnight plutocrat and shill for a new gold rush, he is positively hypnotic when he takes the computer gospel to the young. Jobs is youthful enough to fit right in and both bright enough and rich enough to get respect. Certainly, he does not live like a superstar. His pleasant home in Los Gates is nothing that would interest Architectural Digest: freshly laundered shirts lie on the floor of an unfurnished second bedroom, a love letter is magneted to the kitchen fridge, the master...
...certain issues: economics, nuclear power, science and technology, space and "militaryindustrial relations." The economic issues are most important. Washington, for instance, objects to Brazil's subsidies of exports to the U.S., especially of shoes, orange juice, steel and airplanes. Instead, Brazil wants more direct American aid. In a deft but easy bit of diplomacy, Reagan invited Brazil to send a prospective astronaut to the U.S. for training and, eventually, to fly on a space shuttle mission. (The President is copying the Soviets, who have flown astronauts from Cuba and France...
Director Richard Loneraine (The Missionary) exacerbate this hollowness by taking a heavy-handed approach to the film. After a deft beginning full of irony, the humor inherent in some of the grotesque dialogue and situations fades away, leaving the unsavory side of the film to dominate...
Konstantin Chernenko, 71, the silver-haired party chief administrator, then rose. As every Soviet citizen knew, Chernenko had been Andropov's main competitor for the succession. Now, in a deft and effective political gesture, the rival was moving to nominate the winner, thus symbolizing the need to close ranks. "Dear Comrades, all of us are obviously aware that it is extremely difficult to repair the loss inflicted on us by the death of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev," Chernenko said. "It is now twice, three times as important to conduct matters in the party collectively." Chernenko, a close protege of Brezhnev...
...which consists of Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Budget Director David Stockman and the chairman of the CEA. In weekly break fast meetings of the group, Feldstein has managed to hold his own in even the most esoteric of budget debates with Stockman, who possessesa daunting reputation for his deft handling of twelve-digit numbers. Feldstein's tactic: offering historical comparisons backed up with specific statistics, a device that Stockman has also used with success in policy disputes. Says Treasury Secretary Regan of the meetings: "Marty gives Dave a run for his money. If we're talking about...