Word: savvyness
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The departing National Security Adviser, Vice Admiral John Poindexter, was the fourth man to hold that job in the Reagan presidency, an extraordinary turnover for such a sensitive post. A reclusive figure who cut himself off from Congress and the press, Poindexter was further undermined by placing too much trust...
Playing opposite Bill Bradley in the congressional front court. Unlike Bradley, newly elected Congressman Tom McMillen of Maryland did not, as a professional basketball player, move well without the ball. Like the New Jersey Senator, however, he is a neoliberal Democrat, a Rhodes scholar and a victor in his first...
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. had two political forebears. His father, a Boston city councilman, taught him the give-and-take of local politics: ringing doorbells, listening to constituents, handing out favors. Then, when O'Neill went to Washington in 1953 after winning Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District (John F. Kennedy...
Vacuous and innocent, she lacks the flirtatious savvy of the brassy Lol, who trots about with a swing in her hips, pink lipstick on her lips, and who, at her young age, really knows how to lick a lollypop.
Unfortunately, though, more and more people are eating more and more of their meals at fast-food restaurants. Savvy commercial campaigns--the industry spends $2 billion a year on advertising and promotions--and the lure of a quick, convenient repast have made the restaurants so popular that fast-food restaurants...