Word: shrewdest
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...consistent pattern of searching out father figures as mentors in each field he's tried, and he's always selected good ones. In Texas he chose (or was chosen by; let's keep that open) lieutenant governor Bob Bullock, one of the shrewdest s.o.b.s who ever walked. Let's just say that if Bush had studied politics under Lyndon Johnson or Machiavelli, he couldn't have done better. Dick Cheney is apparently the new mentor, and I'm favorably impressed, certainly by Cheney's demeanor; one worries because his voting record is so nutsoid...
Grove's built-in drive to succeed, combined with an aggressive business attitude and knowledge of the market propelled Intel to the head of the computer revolution and made Grove, who will deliver today's Class Day speech at Harvard Business School, one of the world's richest and shrewdest...