Word: shrewd
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Burma's gentle, shrewd Premier U Nu, who has been touring the world's capitals from Peking to Washington like a kind of international comparison shopper, faced newsmen on his own home ground last week and reported a neutralist's findings...
Educators have every reason to shudder at the outrageously cynical characterization of the college president. Betty Grable as a shrewd blonde carries most of the acting load. But Sheree North - who looks every bit as good from the south and every other point of the compass - is the major attraction. Though her dumblonde role calls for few lines, Dancer North, in a few blistering numbers, tosses her torso around with the speed and precision of a super-rocket. As Hollywood's newest guided miss. Sheree ought to be very, very popular...
...American diplomacy and for Dwight Eisenhower, the conference at Geneva was a triumph. Throughout the week the President dominated the scene in every move he made-from his shrewd attention to his old friend Georgy Zhukov to his electrifying offer to trade military blueprints with the Soviets (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Shadows. In the many years that followed, always operating in semi-shadow while the world's oil bubbled up to power a whole new mechanical age, Calouste Gulbenkian polished the traits bequeathed him by his shrewd Armenian ancestors. He came to deal on equal terms with most of the great sovereign governments of the West, the mightiest autocratic potentates of the East and great burgeoning billion-dollar corporations. Gulbenkian himself seldom dirtied his hands with the actual pumping and selling of the oil. He was an operator, an adept at what the Armenians call bazarlik, a dim figure...
...among U.S. businessmen. The phrase is "company raiding," but very few businessmen agree on a precise definition. Originally, the term was coined in the robber-baron days of the late1800s and bore connotations of watered stock, rigged markets, stolen company assets. Today, some businessmen use the phrase to describe shrewd investors who snap up an undervalued company with the idea of liquidating it for a quick profit; others apply it to investors who take over such firms and ram through drastic changes to improve the properties and turn in bigger profits. The phrase has been applied to Robert R. Young...