Word: cunningness
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The room went dark, as if a science genius was trying to sneak in and take the test for a friend. But no cunning activity had transpired. the pre-meds were held prisoner for two hours, with updates every half hour informing them that the power might not return and...
Yet that hardly kept Greenspan from having to marshal his political cunning to defend himself against the Treasury's bid for a banking superagency. He deployed a full-time lobbyist, dropped in on members of Congress to attack the plan, and dispatched senior Fed officials to spread the word among...
Unfortunately, however, tax coddling doesn't necessarily put the overclass in the mood to generate decent employment. Barlett and Steele offer the case of Buster Brown shoes, which managed, by means of some cunning detours through the Caymans, to reduce its 1987 tax rate to 1.7% of sales. Meanwhile, the...
And what creates serial killers? While they tend to be cunning and intelligent sociopaths who use charm, guile, ruses and devices to gain the trust of victims, they are "failures at life," observes Birnes, "at every single level of their life." Experts blame the creation of serial killers on the...
Who, then, decided that Jesus must die, and what were the reasons? In Brown's reading, Jesus' judges were a loosely defined group of Jewish aristocrats led by Caiaphas, the high priest who survived 18 years in the post. The Sanhedrin members were reacting to perceived threats to their faith...