Word: charm
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...From his days at Cambridge, he was a man on the make. Comments from his profs indicate his charm and their nettled reluctance to surrender to it. "Well-read, quick, keen, industrious," read a judgment from 1927. "I doubt if he has any real originality." The following year: "satisfactory, but a journalist's mind." And in 1932: "I still believe that he is not really a first-class man, but there is no doubt he has an extraordinary capacity for impressing himself on others.... He is very much out for himself, and I should sum him up as a clever...
...Japan's charm offensive is taking shape on several fronts. Cash-flush Japanese banks, which have only just emerged from their own decade-long debt crisis, are infusing money into distressed companies such as Morgan Stanley. Japan Inc. is going on another of its famous investment sprees abroad, opening factories and representative offices across Africa and Asia. In October, the country's central bank even offered part of its nearly $1 trillion in reserves to financially strapped nations like Iceland. In November, Japan also expressed willingness to lend up to $100 billion to the International Monetary Fund...
...stadium on the waterfront of St. Petersburg, Fla., fell apart, a significant defeat for team officials. They had hoped to have a new home for the team that could draw more season ticket holders. The Rays’ current venue, Tropicana Field, is a cavernous dome that lacks much charm...
...support from a slim plurality of 30% of PS members. Also arrayed against her is the current first secretary, François Hollande, her now estranged partner and father of her four children. Whatever else motivates their opposition, there is a pervasive sense that Royal, for all her personal charm, has failed to articulate a clear ideological line for a party that cares deeply - perhaps too deeply - about ideology, nor propose a platform the PS can present to voters as a blueprint for governing...
...third time’s the charm, the women’s basketball team and its class of four seniors have a magical season ahead...