Word: deftly
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...according to city licensing officials, the Grille, primarily by virtue of deft legal representation and restrictions on the Cambridge and Massachusetts agencies responsible for overseeing it, has managed to elude the clutches of the Cambridge License Commission and Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC), despite a plethora of underage students found drinking there in stings conducted over the past decade...
...secretary of state, just back from the Middle East after his first tour there as a civilian rather than a four-star general, was very much up on the first-night reviews of his performance. The liberal New York Times editorial was glowing: "a deft diplomatic debut," it said, noting that Powell "moved nimbly through his meetings" with Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, and that he "gained new credit from his unpretentious diplomatic style". The Times concluded that while much remains to be done in that troubled region, "he is off to an impressive start." By contrast, the conservative Washington...
...Singer's deft diagnosis came courtesy of a medical newsletter, one of a burgeoning arsenal published for consumers. The nation's top 10 consumer health newsletters reach more than 4.4 million subscribers, many of them older, educated women hungry for reliable, understandable sources that sort through the daily onslaught of unevaluated health information. Singer buys Cornell University's Women's Health Advisor, as well as Nutrition Action Healthletter from the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Johns Hopkins Medical Letter, Health After 50. "At my age, your body has all kinds of surprise quirks," explains Singer...
...trots through the tales of 40 years in public service ranging from Deputy Attorney General under Lyndon Johnson to Secretary of State under Bill Clinton. What makes the book engaging is the diversity of material--from the race riots in Watts to the war in the Balkans--and the deft sketches of the characters he meets along the way. Though lacking in Dean Acheson's wicked wit or Henry Kissinger's grand concepts, Christopher's earnest approach has its charms...
What might have been a competent formulaic romance earns an added luster in A Student of Weather (Counterpoint; 368 pages; $24) thanks to Canadian author Elizabeth Hays' deft variations on and additions to familiar themes. Two sisters, Lucinda, 17, and Norma Joyce Hardy, 8, fall in love with the older man who visits their father's farm in Saskatchewan during the 1930s to study local plants and Dust Bowl weather patterns. Maurice Dove ought to fall for the beautiful and virtuous Lucinda, who runs the household in place of her deceased mother, but it is Norma Joyce, plain and engagingly...