Word: skillful
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...Unlike some who are born-again, Charlie doesn't discard his old ways. He's attracted to this unlikely, maybe undoable scheme in part because it requires his own special skill set, and in part because - as Charles Foster Kane said about running a newspaper - Charlie thinks it would be fun to bankroll a counterinsurgency. In the cheerful bravado of a can-do Texan, he thinks: Hell, why not? When Charlie masterminds it, war is swell...
...whom, is a distraction from the larger truth: professional baseball long ago ceased to be a contest of athleticism. A large part of the appeal of following sports, professional or amateur, is predicated on the belief that they are fair contests. That the team with the most skill, the most practice, and even, sometimes, the most luck will prevail. Tilting the playing field further to include external, synthetic factors like steroids is damaging to the basic integrity of any athletic contest, which, like it or not, has far reaching repercussions for our culture in general. Baseball is known...
...It’s really gratifying to be able to bring together different perspectives and different skill sets to help solve a widely-acknowledged problem, and that’s something that the Carr Center is uniquely privileged to do,” Sewall said...
...gaunt, pretrenaturally athletic (they can climb tall buildings at several bounds) and as ravenous as any killer carnivore for human flesh. One sequence, in which Neville follows the dog into a dark building and is confronted by the creatures, worked on my nerves with a superior technical and artistic skill set - a mixture of computer beasties and old-fashioned suspense...
...Computer literacy is a technical skill,” Jenkins said. “What we want to do is integrate the skills we identify across the curriculum—taking a subject like authorship in a language arts class, and showing how you reconceptualize it using these new skills and building on them. Skills don’t have to be high-tech to be effective...