Word: savvyness
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Like all savvy salesmen, Unilever knows its territory. It blends local beliefs with modern marketing methods, promotes another familiar product by employing comely local women-each is known as "Miss Lux"-who often accompany the Omo man. While other private companies in Africa have been chivvied by dictators and political...
Pierre Cardin is one of Paris' most creative couturiers, famous as the man who eight years ago first put models in crash helmets, two years ago matched short skirts with stockings and slashed the décolletages. Nicole Alphand was known as Washington's hostess par excellence in...
Front Runner. With these currents buffeting the economy, it is a tough time for anybody to be president of G.M. In grooming a chief executive, G.M. prides itself on picking the one man with the right combination of talents for the challenges ahead. Charlie Wilson was an engineering whiz, Harlow...
Sober Nightclub. Even more influential is London's Siegmund Warburg. He fled to Britain with less than $25,000 in 1933, later stormed the City's tight inner circle by investing in growing companies, reorganizing sick ones and exploiting his best asset: savvy in world finance. As a...
Another elusive scientist is the excuse given for The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, the most flagrantly imitative spoof of the lot. Its second-best agent is played with studied respect by one Tom Adams, who vaguely resembles Sean Connery. The film sputters with genuine excitement...