Word: savvier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reducing labor costs also got a nasty shock. "Senior executives may think that a press release announcing layoffs sends a signal like, 'Look, I'm cutting costs, therefore reward me,' " says Carol Coles, president of Mitchell & Co., a management consulting firm in Waltham, Massachusetts. "But investors are a lot savvier than that. They know that firms that had major layoffs often have more significant problems. Streamlining a company does not push stock prices higher...
...Buffalo rapidly amassed a menu of failing savings banks around the state, with the blessings of business-first federal regulators. But as the go-go years went-went, Goldome turned to dross. The bank inched back toward profitability during 1989, only to face stricter capital requirements from a savvier set of feds in the wake of the S&L crisis. The new rules of the game finally proved Goldome's undoing last week...
...advisers to George Bush are grousing ever louder about John Sununu's bullying style. They complain that the White House chief of staff is unable and unwilling to play the crucial "outside game" of congressional and public persuasion. What's worse, Sununu prevents Bush from hearing frank counsel from savvier advisers on domestic policy, which hampered the White House's ability to handle the budget crisis. The problem isn't access; Bush still sees many domestic advisers. But Sununu has most of them scared to disagree with him. One Sununu tool is aide Ed Rogers, who spends much...
...wife, they did not sleep together. When he took her home at night, she felt that he wanted to lock her in. At 22 she had a brief romance with a man her own age but could not face her mentor's wrath. Her next young suitor was savvier. Paul Mejia, a member of the company, slowly made friends with Farrell before asking for her hand...