Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole has been intimately involved with Social Security for two decades and has shown considerable courage. In 1985 he had the guts and skill to steer through the Senate a one-year elimination of cost-of-living increases, a deficit-reduction measure later blamed for the G.O.P.'s loss of the Senate in 1986. Yet last summer, when I asked him if leadership didn't demand that he at least remind seniors that they get far more out of Social Security than they pay in, Dole said, "I'm not gonna tell them that. There's something called suicide...
...bags, notebooks, her six-year-old son's belongings--from the car. "It wasn't hysterical," Carluccio says of the 24-minute tape. "It wasn't the kind of thing you would expect of someone who is facing a life-threatening situation. Mrs. Weinstein valiantly and persistently used every skill and power she had to convince her attacker to simply take her car and not her life...
...They grabbed him in the halls and cornered him at lunch and handed him notes, so that by afternoon he had to flee the building for a little peace. But if he doesn't always heed would-be advisers, Dole at least remembers what they say: it's a skill he learned long ago, by himself, when he couldn't write things down...
...animals and robot beasts in Babe, the bloody briskness of the battle sequences in Braveheart, the claustrophobic submarine struggle in Crimson Tide and the jolting impact of Seven. Character study, animal film, martial epic, macho debating, upscale splatter--all genres sizzle or sink depending on the editor's skill...
...inviting pop albums of the year," says TIME's David Thigpen. "Mann's way with a tune is only getting better -- cuts such as 'Choice in the Matter' and the solo guitar piece 'You're with Stupid Now' are exquisitely poised, 3-min. masterpieces. Mann has the same skill that great tunesmiths like Paul McCartney and Neil Young have: the knack for composing songs that are simple, beautiful and instantly engaging...