Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quad residents are smarter than other students: Of course they are. It takes immense skill and rote memorization to decipher the ever-increasingly complicated schedule for the shuttle that transports Quadlings from their rooms to their classes on time...
...tough little monkey," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "He gets in the corners, and he has some skill, too. He works. He's a good skater. He even passes well. He complements the other two very well...
...most powerful entry in Dubus' impressive canon. Some decades down the road, enough justification will have cohered to call Rose a classic American story. And it is not, in truth, the product of a last worthless evening but of an artist in full control of his sympathies and skill...
...Stringer largely escaped the in-house criticism directed at Joyce and Sauter, partly because of his solid journalistic credentials and partly, some say, because of his skill at the corporate political game. In his campaign for the presidency, Stringer won the support of such key CBS News figures as Dan Rather, Bill Moyers and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt. He also sought the advice of two ex-CBS News presidents, Richard Salant and William Leonard, and Burton Benjamin, a longtime CBS News executive who retired last year. Benjamin, 69, had been offered the job of interim president but declined...
...Medical School, Brandt teaches an elective course in medical ethics which regularly attracts large enrollment, says Leon Eisenberg, Presley Professor of Social Medicine. "The large numbers of students are a compliment to his skill as a teacher...