Word: savvier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pint-size pilferers somehow managed to hoist the heavy steel trikes out the window before joyriding four blocks to a nearby youth club. A neighbor saw them break into the club and called police, who nabbed the two preschoolers. The savvier ringleader escaped through a second-floor window of the youth club, only to be found later cowering under a bed at the day-care center. The child, whose name was withheld, was charged last week with two counts of second-degree burglary, which police expect to drop. His two accomplices, however, were released to the kind of sentencing only...
...addition to offering fresh technology, PC manufacturers are getting savvier at marketing their wares. Apple Chairman John Sculley, former president of Pepsi-Cola, has visited many Big Business cronies to tout the Macintosh. The result: Apple's sales to the commercial market have nearly doubled since 1984, and the Mac is seen as a tool for executives instead of just a plaything for students and hobbyists. As Sculley told TIME: "We had to reposition the whole company...
...convinced it's time to buy yet. The market is too fickle. I don't trust it." Po is waiting for an upswing in pharmaceutical stocks so that he can unload at a profit the ones he already owns. Many brokers observe that small investors are savvier than they used to be. Glorian Donegan of Moraga, near Oakland, Calif., trades stock tips with her colleagues in a 2,000-member investment club. She regularly visits a nearby business library to read investment magazines and newsletters. Last year Donegan attended the shareholders meeting at California Microwave, which makes satellite-transmission equipment...
...Bird, Ernie and other Sesame Street favorites are gone from CTW's newest undertaking, which aims at a somewhat older and presumably savvier audience, ages eight to twelve. The show's hosts are three young people, Lisa, Marc and Trini, who are forever leaving their Tinkertoy clubhouse for short, filmed sorties to labs, beaches and races-a total of 100 trips in 65 shows. At the start of each episode, Marc announces, "Science is fun," and then tries to prove it. Cartoons are shown to explain how things work, and celebrity guests occasionally drop by to take part...