Word: savvyness
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Long-range financial forecasts can embarrass anyone-even so savvy a money manager as Benjamin Franklin. Eager to demonstrate that a penny saved is indeed a penny earned, Ben at his death in 1790 left a bit less than $9,000 in trust for 200 years to the cities of...
As the new workers mature and acquire job savvy in the '80s, they should cease to be a drag on productivity. It is also faintly reassuring that the productivity slowdown has not been uniformly severe throughout the economy but at its worst in a few industries: mining and utilities, which...
Many New York peddlers are new immigrants: Lebanese, Puerto Ricans and Africans who readily translate savvy from bazaars back home to the streets of Manhattan. Their merchandise too reflects a worldly variety. For lunchtime crowds there are Vietnamese beancakes, falafel, shish kebab, natural-dried fruit, roasted chestnuts. Peddlers sell both...
Another answer would be improved coaching. Francis Xavier McLaughlin may be the friendliest guy you'd ever want to meet, and he may be a virtuoso recruiter, but he lacks the benchi savvy needed to pull a team like this out of its catatonic state.
That same delicacy is prescribed in The Time-Life American Regional Cookbook (Little, Brown; 527 pages; $12.95). Compiled by the editors of the most authoritative cookbook series ever assembled, this savvy potpourri ranges with wit and spice from Eastern Heartland chow to the Creole cuisine of New Orleans, from the...