Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even capable of assessing people's private characters with enough skill to predict their public behavior, when we've never encountered these politicians outside the public domain...
...camera did not like the slow, nearly invisible school figures, and neither did the skaters who, in the 1980s, performed them with declining skill and panache. This year, however, just in time for the Olympics, the sport is reborn with the banishment of the dreaded set patterns. What is left is an effortlessly pleasurable sight for the spectator. Don't know a Lutz from a Salchow? The TV commentators will tell you, or you can ignore the voice-over and just watch graceful young athletes interpret the music in wonderfully tricky ways...
...many courses at a university are courses `about something', and yet what we need are skills, and the skill to think clearly and to relate thinking to doing", he said in an interview yesterday...
...tell directions on a map without physically having to rotate it appears stronger in those individuals whose brains restrict the process to the right hemisphere. Any crosstalk between the two sides apparently distracts the brain from its job. Sure enough, several studies have shown that this mental-rotation skill is indeed more tightly focused in men's brains than in women...
Martins's skill with the puck is reminiscent of another little guy who made it big in Harvard hockey: 1991 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year Peter Ciavaglia...