The act of surmounting the massive technical obstacles these tests present reinforces participants' shared assumption that atomic weapons, if handled competently, are controllable.
Our research indicates that knowledge workers spend a great deal of their time an average of 41%—on discretionary activities that offer little personal satisfaction and could be handled competently by others.
The authors have spent the past three years studying the productivity of knowledge workers and discovered that they spend, on average, 41% of their time on activities that offer little personal satisfaction and could be handled competently by others.
"But although it's handled competently rather than with breathtaking élan, it's almost impossible to dislike: a romping, soundtrack-heavy version of Rollerball (1975) for the indie-rock set, it's enjoyable, undemanding fare better suited to theatres than to living rooms".
None of this is without interest and the patterning of the movie is handled competently enough, but there is something programmatic here: despite the emphatic, heavy weather of realism that lowers over the movie, none of it seemed real, but rather a pageant of contrivances.
The attention of death penalty opponents brought out an impressive eleventh-hour legal defense team to plead his case on appeal; yet, ironically, had his defense been handled competently from the start, Davis might be alive today.
On the sunny side, once up to speed, the Cadillac steers smoothly and handles competently, especially in Sport mode.
Many were kind enough to say I had handled this competently.
Nicholson, an experienced former BBC Breakfast presenter, handled interviews competently but Moore - who is more used to venting her opinions in her Sun column - could not avoid the trap of interrupting guests to interject her own views.
