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...business - cleared the way for the family's long-anticipated and inevitable exit from carmaking. The market's initial reaction was a reminder of just how much the Italian industrial landscape has changed since the heady days of the post-1950s boom, driven by the dashing Agnelli and his knack for selling stylishly small automobiles all over the world - and revving up the profits at home. "The car has led a revolution of customs and consumption," Agnelli once remarked. "At the same time, it has fundamentally launched the country's economic growth." But even Agnelli's flash could not sustain...
...offensive lineman on his high school football team, Palmisano displayed a knack for preparation, devouring the scouting reports before games and almost never blowing a blocking assignment, according to assistant coach Augie Miceli. (Palmisano went on to play for Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a degree in history.) Off the field, he also showed an early entrepreneurial streak, once earning $1,000 as a fill-in saxophonist when the Temptations were in town...
...Beale, 65, never knew his mother, Emma, a vivacious former schoolteacher with a knack for picking up foreign languages. When she was 30 and Ed was just 7 months old, she was committed to a psychiatric institution with what the family later recognized as schizophrenia. When Ed was 3, his dad told him that his mother had died soon after giving birth to him. Although she actually lived until 1973--when Ed was 36--he never met her, heard her voice or kissed her cheek...
Wouter Bos seems too good to be true. He's smart, relaxed and impossibly telegenic, with a knack for coming across as humble and sincere. And though his Dutch Labor Party is neck and neck with the Christian Democrats (CDA) in this week's general election in the Netherlands, Bos - who has been party leader for all of two months - insists he doesn't want to be Prime Minister if Labor wins. "Voters knew from the start that I want to go into [government] as leader of the parliamentary party," Bos, 39, said in a newspaper interview last week...
...Keefe’s wit is clearly at work throughout. He has a knack for finding humor in mundane observations, and frequently references figures likeDante and Marx in punch lines that reflect his acerbic...