Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in a deal that combined friendship with business acumen, the "21" Club became a part of the wide-ranging empire of Ralph E. Ablon, chairman of New York-based Ogden Corp. For about $10 million in stock, Ablon acquired the tangible assets of "21" (among them $250,000 worth of old English silver that graces its walls) as well as its valuable land and the three brownstones in which it operates. With the club came two offshoots: Iron Gate Products Co., importers of caviar, grouse and other delicacies, and "21" Club Selected Items Ltd., which imports cigars...
...Hearst collection, but I didn't have the $1,400 then. Ha, but today I do have the $29,000." Ha, indeed. In the present state of demand, he will undoubtedly soon have his $29,000 right back again-plus a handsome and justifiable profit for his acumen...
...handles all revenue-raising legislation. He has a pervasive influence on Government spending as well, since he can insist on budget adjustments as the price of any new tax measure. For eleven years that chairman has been Arkansas' Wilbur Daigh Mills, now 59. His economic sophistication and political acumen have made his word law with his committee members and the whole House. President Nixon has called for re-examination of all U.S. tax policy, and Mills will be the congressional arbiter of any changes. Mills, who rarely gives on-the-record interviews, agreed to sit down for an examination...
...Kennedy is considerably more than a legatee. He had the political acumen to realize that an opportunity existed to make a quantum jump in Senate status. He recognized first the changing mood of the Democrats in the Senate, who strongly felt the urge for new leadership. He saw that Russell Long, who has had many problems and has been none too popular with his colleagues, was ripe for picking Finally, sizing up the situation, he had the courage-or the gall-to make the challenge. Challenge is a family tradition with the Kennedys. On the other hand, Maine...
With unimpeachable acumen, Snow has thus chosen a minor theme close to the central preoccupations of the times. He has also chosen a major crime whose details are sure to titillate and open the doors to a number of fashionable speculations-about the crime of punishment, about the existence of evil and the nature of man. Working them thematically for all they are worth, Snow has produced a book that is bound to provoke a great deal of reflection-but that is also a very bad novel...