Word: savvyness
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He is likable, charming and always has the best interests of farmers at heart. But Secretary of Agriculture John Block, 46, is regarded in Washington as something of a political lightweight, lacking the toughness and savvy to handle an all but impossible job. Time and again, Block has been outmaneuvered...
Negotiation rarely works if it is a merely mechanical compromise of polar extremes conducted, as the behavioral scientist says, "in a complex mixed-motive ambience of trust and suspicion." The best negotiations are inventive. A feistily savvy book, Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything, manages to convey the...
Playing perhaps as well as he has for two years, the 33-year-old Khan used every bit of his accumulated court savvy to quell defending champion Desaulniers in the final, 4-15, 15-13, 15-14, 15-18, 15-11. But it wasn't easy.
The proliferation of CAD/CAM technology, however, should not push untold numbers of workers into the street. CAD/CAM'S spread seems much more likely to spur demand for large new numbers of computer-savvy technicians. Says Seymour Melman, head of Columbia University's industrial engineering department: "We will need...
Usually it is the Japanese who copy and improve American-made products. But some savvy U.S. business people are aiming to beat the Japanese at their own game. They are designing and selling spiffed-up versions of the traditional Japanese futon, or sleeping mat, to none other than eager American...