Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mediators are trained in facilitated listening, a skill Epps said is useful for all students because "learning to listen helps prepare you to avoid stereotyping...
They are the yin and yang of the television-awards shows. One is youth and exuberance, the other experience and skill. One is New York cooler-than-thou, the other Los Angeles flamboyance. One flies by the seat of its pants; the other parades like a marching band. They are the mtv video awards and the Emmys. For those who missed the telecasts (very hard to do in the case of MTV, which never saw a repeat it didn't like), here are some highlights...
...years enter thinking they're stupider than their fellow classmates and leave feeling superior to all. This "wisdom" was apparant at the Freshman Fair, where students who had been gawking at the array of booths and milling around aimlessly the year before seem to have mastered the all-important skill of shoving flyers into unsuspecting first-years' hands, bookbags, and/or arms; luring them with the promise of food and friends, or fervently repeating the all-important mantra, "You know you want to join." Although the eager recruiters realize that the majority of flyers will eventually end up in the trash...
Dustin's remarkable recovery--from medulloblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of childhood brain cancer--is more than a tribute to the skill of the cancer specialists, or oncologists, who treated him. It is also one of many small but significant mileposts that mark how far medical science has come in its fight against the cluster of diseases collectively known as cancer. The struggle has been long and hard and, unlike work in other medical fields, has produced few really dramatic breakthroughs. But patient by patient, tumor by tumor, doctors are beginning to gain ground. "We may not know...
...Americans this is the war that really counts, and Clinton was expected to react with firm skill. Despite his preoccupation with politics, the President ordered his foreign policy aides to get cracking on diplomacy to cool off the Kurds. As Iraqi forces moved north, Clinton fired off a strong warning to Saddam that military intervention in Kurd affairs was "not an action he could take without paying a price." To no avail. On the eve of the Iraqi attack, the Administration was issuing public denunciations of Saddam, and by the time his troops reached Erbil the next day the President...