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...moved out several years ago following the divorce. The two-story colonial on Cricket Pass, in a tranquil planned community between Baltimore and Washington, should have started to feel a little quiet. After all, Tripp had traveled the world for years with Bruce, a lieutenant colonel in the Army. Fluent in German, she had arranged visits for Congressmen around Allied headquarters in Europe, and in the late 1980s she held a classified job with the Army's elite Delta Force. In a man's world, she had learned to play rough. "A hard lady," recalls an officer who knew...
...slow-riding. Chastened, I stuck close to reality until I was trying to account for some dead spots between college and law school, and law school and life. Rather than admit to traveling aimlessly around Europe, I put down that I was studying French, in which I was fluent. How truthful was that? My daughter rolls her eyes when I order bouf bourguignon. These incidents, embarrassing though they be, fall within the acceptable range of victimless embellishment, those exaggerations that burnish a humdrum existence, amuse our listeners or impress a potential employer. A resume is a sales document, and some...
...Idei was tapped for the top job in April 1995. He leapfrogged a dozen more senior managers, accomplished executives with nicknames like "Mr. Walkman," "Mr. Semiconductor" and "Mr. Camcorder," for their roles in Sony's engineering triumphs. Idei was quite different. He studied European history in college. He's fluent in French and English, and held a number of marketing jobs in Europe and Japan...
Jiang abandoned his native Mandarin and the use of his translator midway through his speech to praise the American people in fairly fluent English...
...what they said varied from the text. From this work, he concluded that readers rely on context to guess an upcoming word rather than using the word's spelling. If this ability to guess were improved, and poring over individual letters discouraged, said Goodman, then reading would be more fluent...