Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Titleist combined to guarantee Woods a reported $43 million during the next five years for product endorsements. While other golfers like Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman have parlayed their championship standings into huge fortunes made off the course, Woods has the potential to take that money-spinning skill to a new level. Even though golf lacks the mass popularity of basketball, Woods could be Michael Jordanesque in the world of sports marketing...
...loved the Olympics! for two weeks I got to believe that a person's merit can transcend race, nationality, religion or politics [THE OLYMPICS, Aug. 12]. I could have faith in the possibilities of skill, discipline and attitude. I could cheer for the human race and individual achievement and hope that athletic competition will bind us together. MELINDA AVERY Omaha, Nebraska...
...same time he has a determined sense--nearly grim in its seriousness--that whatever is wrong can, with discipline, be made right. The accident has not changed this basic attitude, though the nature of his injury is too serious for him to pretend that a cure is merely another skill to be learned...
...also early indicators of what is right or going wrong on this planet (think of the canary in the mine shaft). Peterson opened up the natural world to millions of people who might otherwise have gone through life seeing only fluttering shapes and colors. He conscripted through sheer skill and persuasiveness an army of amateur observers; each year, some 24 million Americans make at least one trip from home to look for and at birds. They are paying attention to the earth he cherished. They retain his guides and his guidance...
...directors of large corporations as freeloaders or pawns of the ceo or distracted celebrities or public relations ornaments or assorted varieties of windbag, there is something almost touching in the fact that so many Americans still believe corporate directorship to be a calling requiring such a high level of skill and experience that the inclusion of a woman on a board could put the entire operation in peril...