Though the son lacked his father's great abilities, he maintained the reputation of the firm and, with the aid of his wife, Elizabeth, managed it skillfully.
It's a long time since she's properly kissed anyone but Vince; she's pleased that she seems to manage it suavely and skillfully.
I serve brunch to my daughter's friend and only later realize that she has, while eating bagels and seeming to enjoy our conversation, been text messaging on her cellphone to two or three other friends, managing it all so skillfully -- under the table, during a bathroom break -- that none of us has even noticed.
Mr. Beattie writes that Botswana, rich with diamonds, has managed its resources so skillfully that it now has one of world's fastest-growing economies.
Or did it skillfully manage the crisis and keep deaths down?
We need to manage stress skillfully, keep cortisol from getting too high and/or too low, and keep our telomeres long.
When stress is not managed skillfully, and it becomes a chronic and repetitive part of your personal narrative, cortisol rises too high.
And only those companies that manage the aftermarket skillfully make money from it.
It skillfully yet almost casually manages to mix a coming of age tale, a twisty crime thriller, and a tragic love story in the slow-flowing waters of the Mississippi river, producing a masterful film with an edgy, contemporary darkness, yet with the timeless feel of adolescent adventures like Stand By Me and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The most optimistic outcome, Mr. Miller said, would be a kind of "odd couple" relationship between Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu, in which they retain their differences over issues like settlements, but learn to manage them more skillfully.
By managing energy more skillfully, it's possible to get more done, in less time, more sustainably.
