Word: acumen
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...unknown punk bands, like L.A.'s Black Flag, figured out that "calling up a pressing plant and getting their own record manufactured wasn't the mysterious, exclusive privilege of the giant record companies on the coasts." Black Flag's guitarist and co-founder, Gregg Ginn, used the business acumen he picked up from a surplus radio equipment business he operated out of his home to market his band's records by mail. Soon he began to put out albums by other bands who, like Black Flag, were too rough-hewn and eccentric to attract major record labels. Solid State Tuners...
There are hundreds of Michael Daytons on Capitol Hill - bright, ambitious young people who go to Washington to do good and stay to do well. As Gary Condit's top man in Washington, Dayton is known more for his managerial skills than his legislative acumen. At 31, he also has a reputation as a smooth player. "Staffs come to resemble their members," says a senior congressional aide. "Condit's office had a kind of Steve McQueen cool. They were Blue Dogs" - members of the Conservative Democratic Coalition - "and on top of the world in a closely divided House. They...
...other moments, Graham was more of an abstraction: There was some inexplicable and subconscious comfort in knowing Katharine Graham was around, her solid news sense and unwavering business acumen making journalism a bit less of a boys? club...
...years ago, the Gdynia yard was threatened with bankruptcy and unable to obtain financing from local banks. The change came with the arrival of CEO Janusz Szlanta, 48, a plainspoken former provincial governor and investment banker known for his financial acumen but new to shipbuilding...
...words in your mouth like nobody else," says Dick Van Dyke, who has starred in Yorkin and Lear efforts for both TV and movies. "Yorkin, as a director, is the ideal interpreter of Lear's writing." Lear is more preoccupied with creative matters. Yorkin, with more business acumen, is by his own admission "the heavy in financial deals...