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John Boehner, a slick but likable Ohioan who chairs the House Republican Conference, is as adept at playing the Washington game as is DeLay--befriending reporters, making goo-goo eyes at lobbyists, passing around campaign contributions on the House floor, etc.
Although these differences cannot all be directly attributed to the adoption of the practices per se, they do suggest—especially when combined with the significant inventory performance results reported previously—how important it is for manufacturers to be adept at using incoming information from lean retailing customers.
Short sellers are often founts of useful information, and a certain kind of institutionalized skepticism seems to make them adept at sniffing out fraud and deception, particularly in corporate accounting.
Then again, such a person could be a bright Yale student who is demonstrably adept at putting on advice columnists.
The Germans, in particular, are adept at taking things a step further than ever occurred to anyone in English.