Word: savvyness
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Once upon a time, a savvy Japanese hotelman named Hideki Yokoi came up with the ultimate gimmick. He spent $300,000 for a phoenix-shaped, 22-karat, solid gold bathtub, and installed it 14 years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo...
"We've bought everything we could get our hands on-buy it now and pay it back later with cheaper dollars." So says Walter Salvi, 36, a Boston public relations man. Like millions of other inflation-savvy consumers, Salvi, his wife and three children have caused wonder and befuddlement...
Of course, Hugh is the champion that they are waiting for, but this certainty is a tribute to Le Guin's narrative savvy. Because she moves briskly without ever seeming to hurry, she makes Hugh's transformation from supermarket clerk to Arthurian knight-errant whisk by as inevitably...
Bush it was. The final tally gave him 31.6%, Reagan 29.5%, Senator Howard Baker 15.2% and John Connally 9.3%. To capture Iowa and steal a march on his rivals, Bush began planning in December 1978 with Jim Baker, his longtime Texas friend, who had managed President Ford's 1976...
Make no mistake about it. The Pittsburgh Steelers are one big happy family. The team that will try this Sunday to win its fourth Super Bowl is a homegrown crew. No Steeler has ever played for another pro team, and the club is bankrolled by a kindly patriarch and brainrolled...