Word: acumen
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...find it very sad that middle-class America is filled with Martha wannabes. It is not Ms. Stewart's business acumen, independence or insistence on quality that is being emulated. Women are becoming slaves to style and obsessive do-it-from-scratch projects. Somehow interior design has become confused with having an interior life. KAREN SAGE-STOCKWELL Danville, Calif...
...change compared with the $148 billion stock-options market their work helped create. Merton, of Harvard, and Scholes, of Stanford, were honored last week for helping develop and refine in the 1970s the breakthrough formula commonly used today to price stock options and other so-called derivatives. Their financial acumen had earlier been rewarded (presumably quite amply) through their partnership in a successful Connecticut-based hedge fund...
...Carolina, but the search for his successor has dragged on since spring. Frank Raines, the Budget Director, pre-emptively took his name out of the running, but Clinton is said to be pressing him to reconsider. Meanwhile, a President whose team has already lost the intellectual energy and political acumen of such first-term stars as George Stephanopoulos, Harold Ickes, Don Baer and, yes, Dick Morris is facing another wave of retirements. Among those polishing their resumes include spokesman McCurry, counselor Doug Sosnik and, if he doesn't get Bowles' job, chief lobbyist John Hilley...
...former real estate saleswoman, widow of a judge and mother of a prosecutor, Mary Ann Downs had far more financial and legal acumen than most aging fraud victims. Even so, con artists had little trouble scamming her out of $74,000. Why? How? Her story is a classic study in what makes fraud against elderly people, especially women, one of the biggest growth industries in America. Con men are bilking the elderly out of $40 billion a year, by one FBI estimate...
...executive told Time, "There is a lot of pressure to beat the A.B.L. 'We gotta beat 'em, we gotta beat 'em' is the mentality that comes down from headquarters." Reporters who regularly cover the W.N.B.A. suspect the attendance figures are slightly inflated. But there's no doubting the marketing acumen of the league, which uses regular N.B.A. staff members--not when Liberty (or Sting or Mercury) merchandise flies off the shelves and sports sections devote considerably more space to the summer league than they did to the A.B.L. Even Cavalli is sanguine about the promo power of the W.N.B.A. "When...