Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Rogerson's enthusiasm for the Wing-T, he seems to be running a large risk of neutralizing Butler, his biggest--and perhaps only--asset. Though talented, tailback Chris Ratliff and fullback Steve Magoline don't measure up to Butler, who already owns almost every Princeton passing record...
...fine-tune a message with precise calibration. The U.S., by contrast, is often a cacophony of voices, all shouting and disagreeing at once. But in the struggle for world opinion, it is that very diversity of viewpoint and freedom of dissent that gives the U.S. its most valuable asset: credibility...
...tremendous asset," said David Hughes, Executive Vice President of the Cambridge Chamoer of Commerce "it provides a lot of jobs...
...woman who hides her ambition behind the lowered lids of humble gentility. In this book she seems the same at first, a wan little mouse who acquires sexual power when she puts on a blue velvet dress. But this Miss Morrow is gentle and vulnerable, a creature whose only asset is her sense of decency. Jane and Prudence shows a novelist in complete command, but the rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon...
...Smith's high-tech talent scouts were continuing their hunt for acquisitions. Hughes Aircraft was an early favorite. Considered a rival to Bell Laboratories as an electronics developer, Hughes was precisely the type of company that Smith sought. "They are a storehouse of technology," he says. "Hughes' single biggest asset is its brainpower and teamwork." But Hughes coveted its independence and initially spurned GM. The rebuff turned the automaker toward Electronic Data Systems, a Dallas-based computer-services firm that Founder H. Ross Perot had built into the largest company in its field. Smith sees E.D.S...