Word: skillfull
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"I expected Harvard to be a little sounder, a little more skillful," Butler Coach Langdon Kumler said. "I think we outplayed them in the first half. Our problem is on set plays. In the second half, Harvard outplayed us."
"It took us time to adjust to [URI's] less skillful game," senior Loren Ambinder said. "We held onto the ball too much during the first half."
Some of this burgeoning antiscience sentiment springs from the well-meaning but naive "back to nature" wing of the environmental movement, some from skillful manipulation by demagogues and modern-day Luddites. And some is misdirected; science is often blamed for the misdeeds of industry and government.
Because Bush is, in many respects, the perfect gentleman -- a quality for which he has often been teased -- he has been the perfect U.S. President for this phase of East-West relations. He is a good sport, a gracious winner, skillful at assuring Gorbachev that he won't be sorry...
But the same official admits that the prospects of a coup remain low. According to intelligence reports, Saddam has executed 14 senior military officers in the past four weeks, possibly in response to an attempted coup. For now, though he is defeated militarily and surrounded on nearly all sides by...