Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the past three years, Mesa Petroleum Chief T. Boone Pickens has become America's best-known corporate raider, earning more than $800 million for Mesa and its partners and striking cold fear into the hearts of U.S. oil companies. Knowing a good yarn in the making, at least seven...
In addition, some Congressmen, particularly Southern Democrats representing textile-producing areas, got their ears burned when they went home during the August recess. In Sycamore, Ala., Congressman William Nichols convened a gathering in the spinning room of a closed mill. A constituent who said he was a Korean War veteran...
Knowing the position, the employer's firm, and the employer's industry is essential to a successful interview--an interview that leads to another opportunity, a second interview, or a job offer.
Given the initial communications void, there was no way of knowing how many casualties had occurred in Mexico's rural areas. But scattered damage was reported from the coastal states of Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco and Michoacan. These were close to the epicenter, which geologists located offshore near the border between...
In the same breath, Yevtushenko mocked some of the policies of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Yevtushenko has always been very adept at knowing which way the political winds are blowing. Clearly, he has lent his literary voice to Gorbachev's campaign."