Word: skillful
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...human species adapts when a skill is needed, and so Matt's other senses compensate," he adds. "However, Matt's adaptive adjustment is quite unique and beyond what I have ever seen before...
...called and spoken to the bereaved families of all 33 American victims, inviting them to join him at a memorial service Saturday afternoon at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. That was just the kind of reach-out-and-touch gesture Brown would have made. It was a skill he learned to develop early on. A son of New York City's black aristocracy, his first and perhaps most important lessons were imparted not by the wealthy prep schools he would attend as a teenager but by the human parade passing through his home, Harlem's Hotel Theresa, which...
...That skill came to Brown naturally. He grew up in Harlem during the 1940s and '50s, when it was a vibrant crossroads of black culture, prestige and political savvy. He was the pampered child of college-educated parents who equipped him with bottomless self-confidence, poise and ambition--everything except the power and wealth he later supplied for himself. His family's apartment in the Theresa Hotel, where his father was manager, looked down at the glittering Apollo theater and was only a few yards away from the corner of 125th Street and Seventh Avenue, where street orators expostulated...
...dirty little secret in the incentives game is that the real criteria for site selection are skill and cost of labor, proximity to customers and price of real estate. Tax breaks are rarely the dealmaker. Barry Rubin, a professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, notes that of a firm's variable costs--charges that come on top of fixed expenses like lease payments--state and local taxes make up at most 3%. Giveaways are likely to have little impact unless other factors are virtually equal...
...shaking/ As they struggle with the undertaking/ of simple thought," she cracks on the title song. Lyrically, her acid tongue remains; musically, I'm with Stupid rates as one of the catchiest pop albums of the year, brimming with poised three-minute mini-masterpieces. Mann has the same skill that great tunesmiths like McCartney and Neil Young have: the knack for writing simple, beautiful, instantly engaging songs. She may never sell millions like today's heart-on-the-sleeve emoters, but it's an even better bet that none of them will ever write songs as captivating as this...