Word: savvyness
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Though she is now playing her game in a new arena, Forman's behavior over the past two years is no different than before. The same energy which led her to take on the Boylston St. big-wigs won her a Truman scholarship, and allowed her to lead the Augustana...
Many of the letters of recommendation the committee received were "very savvy" about teaching, Gullette said, adding that it seemed natural to the committe to ask students for nominations because "in one aspect, who knows teachers better than students?"
The analysis ranges from assigning junior executives to keep watch over a potential foreign hot spot, to the elaborate computerized system that American Can Co. set up in 1978 to rank investment risks in some 70 different countries. Many smaller companies hire outside consultants like Chicago's Associated Consultants...
Only a few companies check job seekers with anything like the thoroughness of the FBI. One is Coca-Cola, which may spend up to six months examining all the college and occupational data submitted by an applicant. Most other firms use more informal, and often inadequate, methods. They depend primarily...
Leon Leonwood, always well-protected from the elements in his Bean gear, ran the operation himself until he died at the age of 94, in 1967. "He was strictly a 19th-century character," Bean public affairs director Kilt Andrews insists. But the stout-hearted State of Mainer, who hailed from...