Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Profit in Trades. The trouble with Wall Street is that the securities business, which fattens on the managerial prowess and high technical competence of others, is itself poorly managed and technically backward. Though the Stock Exchange has started a centralized certificate clearing service, millions of dollars worth of stock certificates are still moved back and forth each day by aged messengers. Office automation came to the brokerage business relatively recently, and only because the Street was strangling in its own paper work. In 1968, brokers stepped up hiring expensive new talent and adding office equipment. All of this added greatly...
...eating Grendel family, monsters from the nearby Black Lake, emerge to lay claim to Hotroes' frontheavy daughter, Princess Boobhilde (Line Caplan). With the kingdom paralyzed and helpless. Bennet the Serf (Dick Boling), a slave and would-be poet, goes out in search of the legendary Beowulf (Christopher Tunnard), whose prowess alone can save Boobhilde from the monsters. Beowulf turns out to be well past his prime, but he and Bennet manage to convince both the Grendels and the Court of his ferocity. The truth comes out in the end, of course, but after the usual reversals, schemes and near-weddings...
would anyone become a college president? The job requires a peerless fund raiser, diplomat, orator and cop - a man who can tame romantic radicals, soothe rival professors, work ungodly hours and somehow prove his own scholarly prowess...
...healthy as a hound dog. He lifts weights, jogs, does pushups, plays squash on his lunch hour and likes to get out there with the kids and make like Joe Namath. Yet, in his prolonged obsession with physical prowess, the middle-age fitness fanatic may be exceptionally vulnerable to mental illness...
...China and the rest of Asia to the Japanese, and are being pushed increasingly hard even in Europe. For example, an official of Zeiss Ikon says that Japanese Pentax cameras sell in Switzerland, Holland and Sweden for 5% to 7% less than the comparable Zeiss Icarex-35. Export prowess has planted a flourishing Japanese business colony in Germany itself. More than 100 Japanese companies have opened European sales headquarters in Düsseldorf. The city now boasts a first-class Japanese restaurant, the Nippon-Kan, complete with kimono-clad waitresses...