Word: savvyness
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Your story on János Fekete, "Hungary's Savvy Banker" [June 27], sounds like an advertisement from the National Bank of Hungary. As long as Hungary belongs to the Warsaw Pact, its bankers and businessmen cannot seriously be considered independent thinkers. After Poland's failure, the Kremlin...
In the law that every Boy Scout must learn, the word "thrifty" comes right before "brave, clean and reverent." Yet when a Scout grows up and runs into the U.S. tax code, he finds that a different law is in effect. Uncle Sam rewards big spenders much more than those...
Because he has turned up his nose at cultivating political allies, he had little choice but to put his longtime Senate assistant, William White, in charge. White, 42, knows how to organize his boss's workday but has little savvy about organizing a national political drive. It is already...
At the same time, Atari has not kept up with the fast-paced video-game market. Said one industry watcher: "A game company has to keep ahead technologically-invent and reinvent. If you don't have both the marketing and technical savvy, you're going to get killed...
Such wide-eyed enthusiasm has prompted one of Broderick's colleagues to remark, "Matthew is really 21 going on 15." Or perhaps 50: he is a fascinating combination of young and old, innocent and wise. "From the minute he was born, he was almost the most grownup member of...