Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worry. I haven't always been a ski bum," Kevin F. Fitzpatrick '83 said to me on the chair lift up Okemo Mountain, where my roommates and I had sallied for a day or two of our brief intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced...
...little stagestruck, they sprawled fireworks and Warren Beatty over four days, a coronation paid for by the FORTUNE 500 and capped by 30-year-old White House aides standing in line to pose in their evening wear for Vanity Fair. When the Clintons' populist presumptions outpaced their skill at scheduling, they left out in the cold hundreds of well-wishers who had been promised a chance to shake the new President's hand. The snafu prompted Hillary Clinton to whisper to her husband on network television, "We just screwed all these people...
...Audrey Freedman, an economist who specializes in labor issues: "Students should take the toughest courses they can to develop their logic and reasoning capacity." Essential too, she concurs, is expressing oneself "clearly and persuasively." Above all, in a job world where change is the only constant, the most valuable skill for the young--and their elders--is the ability to keep on learning. (For more on training, see following story...
...language was probably little more than a system of gestures and grunts. Their diet, consisting of foraged fruits and crudely cooked animals, was not an easy one to force down--if the attachment points on their skulls for stout chewing muscles and their large front teeth suggest anything. Their skill in making tools was limited: a flaked stone or a crude ax was probably as good as it got. They arose in Africa about 1.8 million years ago and later ranged over an impressive expanse of land that included the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia and possibly Europe. But Homo...
...over the Grand Strategic Architecture of Post-Cold War Policy; Clinton was pondering personalities, teamwork, chemistry. He wanted known quantities who could ensure a quick and tidy transition; basic compatibility to avoid the turf wars that pulverized the Carter Administration; loyalty over swashbuckling egos; tough, proven negotiating talent and skill at p.r. A Republican to prove bipartisan goodwill. Maybe a promotion for one old friend and a safe haven for another...