Word: savvyness
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Even sitting down in a chair requires careful planning. The chair should be moved one inch to establish territory and slid into from front to back. The savvy executive can then strike the ultimate power pose by turning slightly and planting an elbow on the armrest.
The paper's editorial staff numbers 668 full-time journalists, and the Times maintains 13 U.S. bureaus and 22 abroad. It also produces eight local zoned editions. Eight reporters were assigned to the Iowa presidential nominating caucuses; ten writers and four photographers were sent to the scene when a...
This time Enderby is in Indianapolis, reluctantly scribbling the libretto to a musical crudely based on the life of Shakespeare. His position, as usual, is hopeless. Middle America is all Philistine hostesses and barbarous hotels. At the theater, he bemoans the "limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy...
Dorfman and Elia said they had often been pressured to reveal column items before they were published. "You get that," said Elia. "You have to be very careful and very savvy about motives. You have to know your sources and the axes anyone has to grind." Conceded Dorfman: "There are...
Until a few years ago, software was used almost exclusively to operate the big, impersonal mainframe computers, which were isolated in air-conditioned rooms behind glass partitions. The software for these giant machines is still in place, keeping track of long-distance telephone calls, calculating interest on bank accounts, and...