Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vehicles do different things for each of the sexes. While men revel in their swaggering, go-anywhere prowess, women like the high cabins that enable them to look out over traffic and feel secure. "Before, when I drove around town, I always had my hand on the horn because I was worried about my visibility to other drivers," says Jill Headstream, 41, a legal assistant in Austin, Texas, who traded in her Ford Probe for an Explorer in April. "I'm noticed now." Besides, says Headstream, Jeeps and their cousins have helped bolster the position of women in the road...
...experience and the batting prowess of Giardi and Brissette are being sorely missed...
...users of the new Macintoshes need not own Mathematica in order to appreciate the Power Macintosh's number-crunching prowess. Every new machine comes equipped with a graphing calculator desk accessory that emulates the MacGrapher used in Mathematics 21a--only better...
...Baird problem." I was among those people who had spent the early months of 1993 feeling mighty smug because I have always paid the Social Security tax for my once-a-week cleaning lady and have the paperwork to prove it. This second demonstration of my job- creating prowess would not be allowed to mar that record. Anyway, the paperwork would not be my problem. What are assistants for, after...
...Nagarahole National Park, the Bengal tigress is hungry and ready to begin another night's hunt. To nourish her 500-lb. body, she must kill a sambar deer, a boar or some other big animal every week of her adult life. Fortunately for her, Nature has given tigers the prowess to prey upon creatures far larger than the cats are. Her massive shoulders and forelimbs can grip and bring down a gaur, a wild, oxlike animal that may weigh more than a ton. Her powerful jaws and daggerlike teeth can rip the victim's throat or sever its spinal column...