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Actually, Aetna is already well entrenched in managed care, serving 7.5 million of its 11.3 million clients through such operations. But U.S. Healthcare has proved far more aggressive and agile in establishing footholds and driving down managed-care costs, through a combination of shrewd salesmanship, sophisticated computer tracking and tough bargaining. Last year, while Aetna earned $474 million on $13 billion in revenues, a net profit of 3.64%, U.S. Healthcare's profitability was far greater. With just 2.8 million clients, it racked up $380 million in earnings on $3.6 billion in revenues, or a 10.55% net profit...
Proctor's main attribute, Carnesale said, is his ability as a "shrewd" financial manager...
Passive aggression has its triumphs. Sometimes it is the only civilized way to get things done: it was a passive aggressive's masterstroke--shrewd disruption elevated to the moral prestige of "passive resistance"--that Gandhi used to drive the British out of India...
...Riverdance. Composer Bill Whelan wrote the score, which uses traditional forms like the jig and the reel. And Michael Flatley, the volcanic star of the short segment, devised the choreography. All four had a background in television or the theater, which paid off in the show's drive and shrewd pacing. Americans are about to get their first look at this phenomenon...
...royals and the world have learned, that statement was not quite on the mark. Diana is resourceful and shrewd. But in the short term, she faces a tough time. Estranged from the royals, she could find herself stuck with the media and little else. When Patrick Jephson, her private secretary for eight years, left, she lost perhaps her wisest adviser, and now she appears increasingly isolated...