Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least for the purpose of this new techno-thriller, his best by far since The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton accepts the charge that genetic research these days is a headlong, unregulated profit-and-glory grab by microbiologists with more skill than wisdom. Suppose, says Crichton, that a respectable paleozoologist (call him Alan Grant) begins to get increasingly detailed queries from a secretive corporate donor about what infant dinosaurs ate. Grant sends in his best guess. More questions follow, and they have a ring of urgency. What is this...
...this show had to be done -- and at a high level of curatorial skill -- in Indiana. No New York museum plans to take it; nor could Manhattan venues be found for Franz Kline, Guido Reni, early Poussin, De Stijl, Lucian Freud and quite a number of other splendid and informative exhibitions mounted by museums west of the Hudson in the past few years. There is something unpalatable about this, a dismal message about the provincial art politics of the supposed center...
...transcending Donato's stickhandling skill is an intangible ability to perform under pressure. Harvard goalie Chuckie Hughes, who tended the twines at Catholic Memorial during Donato's senior year, marvels at Donato's ability to excel in the clutch...
...innate skill at negotiation and compromise is what has made Prunskiene such a forceful leader. She always expresses herself firmly and directly, she says, but "in such a way that when the conversation is over, it can end without conflict and leave open the possibility of continuing later." Her private discussions with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, she says, have been marked by this ability to disagree without insulting or demeaning the Soviet leader. Yet if her tactics are nonconfrontational, she is unwilling to compromise her goals. "The most important thing," she says, "is to reach our independence...
With the release of these data, a debate once cluttered by factual uncertainty is now presented in its starkest terms: Harvard admits a large number of substantially less qualified students on the basis of their skill on the playing field or, to quote J.S. Mill, "merely for having taken the trouble to be born...