Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the "skill" positions are filled, Harvardencounters some serious difficulties along theline. Currently, the Crimson features only onereturning starter: senior guard Jeff Landry...
This statement will be greeted warmly by someplayers who criticized Getman for lacking coachingstrategy or any skill...
Bishop, like Wiles, says cervical dislocationis too dependent on the skill of the executioner."One person may screw it up and cause unspeakabletrauma," Bishop says...
...biggest changes brought about by sports science is the increased use of resistance training, which includes workouts with weights as well as sessions on machines employing everything from hydraulic cylinders to rubber bands. Such training has spread even to the more skill-oriented sports, including archery and target shooting. The reason is that scientists have learned that muscle strength produces not only power but also stamina. At the National Sculling Center on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls...
Gore, however, has grown in political skill and public approval, while Quayle has not -- as both men demonstrated vividly last week. Campaigning arm in arm with Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton on a triumphant bus tour that attracted enthusiastic crowds through the Midwest, Gore managed to excite voters as he seldom did during the 1988 primaries. He deftly fielded questions, deferred to Clinton, turned back attacks from the Bush campaign and provided a remarkably effective complement to his running mate's considerable campaign skills. "Both of the Democratic candidates are young and smart," grumbled a depressed Bush-Quayle campaign official...