Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shield myself from the things that I hear?/I want to close my eyes and sleep for a year." The arrangement, mixing bongos and warm organ tones with Hatfield's melancholy guitar strumming, manages to sound simultaneously spare and rich--a rare achievement and testament to Hatfield's songwriting prowess...
...play anything at all complex. But his hubris is evident as he foils many fills and distracts the listener from the flow of the music. Even without much skill, he and the rest of the band play with an in-your-face aggressiveness that overshadows their lack of technical prowess. Although balanced in its different elements, their sound lumbers clumsily along...
...season long you've been waiting for the men's soccer captain to burst out and show his offensive prowess to everyone in the country and dominate a game. Against B.U. he did just that...
Harvard's offense turned things around somewhat, especially in the 3-1 defeat of Maryland. The sudden scoring prowess is attributable to a change of attitude...
That platform didn't come as cheap as most of Weill's deals, but he still figures it to be a good transaction. Salomon, with clients from Boston to Bangkok and offices in 23 countries, has earned a solid reputation for its prowess in international finance. The 87-year-old firm also has a reputation as Wall Street's version of a frat-jock house. Its swaggering, foul-mouthed and lavishly rewarded traders epitomized the masters-of-the-universe Wall Street culture of the 1980s. That swagger was staggered by a government bond-trading scandal in 1991 from which...