Word: savvyness
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"One of the really terrible things about this is what it did to the kids," Swanger said. "They've been burned many, many times. These kids, even though they're very young, have savvy about this sort of thing and it really hurt them when the funding was cut."
Voila, the microcar. For about a decade, this urban motorist's dream has been available to thousands of car owners in rural France. In the late 1970s, another era of spiraling oil costs and Middle East tension, a handful of automakers developed midget voitures sans permis (no-license cars) to...
That elevation -- making her one of the top two women in the department -- hastened her transformation from policewoman to bureaucrat. To help compensate for her lack of street savvy, Watson volunteered to supervise the night shift at one of the toughest substations. "When it was announced at roll call that...
One hallmark of the new, tougher Bush may be that he will begin reaching outside the White House for political advice from the team of savvy, experienced advisers that helped him win in 1988. Despite the respect and gratitude Bush feels for his combative and often insensitive chief of staff...
Many educators argue that high SAT scores are no more accurate a predictor of academic success than high school class ranking or grade averages. They also charge that SAT success can be learned, pointing to cram schools that promise, for substantial fees, to raise students' scores by 100 points or...