71.  But he was also adept at managing the affairs of Mount Carmel.

72.  But Lamy has shown himself to be adept at compromise.

73.  But Microsoft is quite adept at continuing to do routine business with companies it is nonetheless intent on destroying.

74.  But Smith has been adept at picking the right combinations of his versatile players.

75.  But some thought he was less adept at producing vintage ports.

76.  But paradoxically, in the hands of a subversive artist, it is equally adept at challenging the narrow Darwinian vision of life that saturates commercial television.

77.  But Redwine is equally adept at the post pattern or the flag route.

78.  But the days of massive infusions of federal money, which he had been so adept at channeling to Boston, were over.

79.  But skeptics suggest that the mediums are merely adept at giving back to receptive clients information elicited along the way.

80.  But up close here in London, it is clear that the politicians are as adept at hurling insults and the voters as irritatingly rebellious as our own.