Word: cred
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Investors also like the industry's new Establishment cred. The old model of buying an overstaffed, underleveraged company, stripping it of cash and slashing jobs and expenses simply doesn't work as well now that corporate America has learned to downsize itself. Competition from abroad keeps companies on their toes just as well as the threat of a hostile takeover ever did. "The heart and soul has become real business building," says Marc Lipschultz, a partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
...maybe ordinary Britons were never as bothered by signs of privilege as the chattering classes.) When all was said and done, Cameron did win the Tory leadership. Polls rate him as more popular than Tony Blair or Brown - and his speaking style has a lot more street cred than Brown's. Blair himself is the product of an Edinburgh school, Fettes, that is often called the Scottish Eton. A lot of institutions that used to symbolize and perpetuate inequality in Britain seem to have lost their toxic punch; the royal family, for example, has never been more popular. What about...
...What might give Sudoku brain cred to a veteran puzzle-solver like me? Two things. About a dozen of the book versions of the game carry the august authorship of Will Shortz, editor of the New York Times crossword, and star of the spiffy new documentary Wordplay, which opens this weekend in select cities. And among Sudoku's greatest fans is my sister-in-law, Pat Thompson Corliss...
...heard of him when he was named a candidate for al-Jaafari's job. More damaging is the fact that his party is allied with powerful Shi'ite groups that control the very militias he says he wants to crush. Criticizing U.S. troops will help him gain some street cred--if Iraqis believe he is serious. In the 10 weeks since the Haditha incident was made public, he showed little interest in the alleged massacre--until his outburst last week...
...diviner of patterns and types. Few know their way around a statistical time series like he does; no one can match his ingenuity in figuring out what to do with it. When Megalogenis describes the rise of the McMansion, for instance, you get acute social observation, street-cred cultural criticism, political nous, personal anecdote, ethnic punditry and a savvy dissection of changes in capital gains tax. There's a sense that Megalogenis-a former Canberra Press Gallery fixture who's never lost touch with the pulse of life in the suburbs-remembers everything and wastes nothing. It shows...