Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets win the battle for the Arctic oil? No one can say for sure. Despite their backwardness and bureaucratic bungling, the Russians have shown remarkable skill and endurance in their present Siberian ventures. They have learned how to insulate rigs against the treacherous thawing tundra and to use aluminum drilling shafts that can be sunk deeper than heavier steel ones. They have developed turbo-drills that, they claim, bore three times as fast as conventional U.S. ones. But despite wages two to three times as high as the national average of $215 a month, workers desert the frozen Siberian expanses...
...skill soon won him the respect of the players as well-and an income of about $80,000 a year. Says fellow American Armando Gonzalez: "His remate [backhand carom] is devastating, a knockout punch. There's no defense." An old Basque adversary, Jose Solaun, agrees: "Make a mistake against him and you're dead." Acknowledgment has sometimes been grudging, however. Jai-alai, long dominated by the Basques, is a clique-ridden world that does not suffer outsiders gladly. Solaun admits that his countrymen distance themselves from the handsome young American: "There is a resentment and coolness, a feeling...
...most part, Byrd's colleagues welcome his nearly unerring sense of where the Senators collectively want to go. Even Republicans give him high marks, at least for technical skill. Says New York's Jacob Javits: "He moves heaven and earth to keep the Senate going. But Mike Mansfield and Bob Taft [Republican leader in 1953] did not have to be majority leaders to be great Senators. Byrd is an efficient person in charge of the Senate...
Whatever policy Miller adopts, he will need luck as well as skill to see that it actually gets carried out. During 1977 money supply bounced around wildly, rising at an annual rate of over 19% in April, but falling at a 1.8% rate in November. The swings puzzled and frightened investors and were a contributing factor in the stock market's decline. One reason for the gyrations is that velocity-the speed with which money changes hands-speeded up and slowed down unpredictably. A change in velocity can cause the Federal Reserve's maneuvers in buying and selling...
There was disagreement over the quality of Carter's economic policy. Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, said yesterday Carter moved the economy in the right direction. Whether it was "luck or skill is irrelevant; it is only important that the economy did well," Eckstein added...