Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty students are concentrating jointly in economics and EAS and "are attracted to East Asia's economic prowess," as one student says...
...foresee a new policy angle in the President's prowess. Buying the President boxing gloves is certainly cheaper than an air-craft carrier. Perhaps "big stick" diplomacy can give way to "Big Bubba" diplomacy. After all, the President's girth is surely one of his virtues. I would put our champion against any of those other so-called world leaders. The war in Bosnia, the Japanese trade deficit and China's human rights violations could all be settled in a way appropriate for gentlemen. I'm betting on Bubba...
Shorthanded Prowess...
...SOME DEGREE ALL GUNFIGHTER westerns are meditations on celebrity. As the hero proceeds along his increasingly corpse-strewn path, making one vivid assertion after another of his deadly prowess, he becomes a public figure, a source of rumor, legend and awe, just like a movie star. His reputation--always preceding him, simultaneously distancing and entrancing his public--becomes both a source of strength, making tremulous the hands of his enemies, and a source of danger, in that it encourages people who want a piece of his fame to form an entourage around him. Or challenge him to a deadly encounter...
With the catch, the perennial all-pro surpassed James Lofton's all-time receiving record of 14,004 yards, and by the end of the game Rice had set the new pinnacle of pass-catching prowess at 14,040 yards...