Word: savvyness
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In unveiling the 1965 Soviet budget last month, Premier Aleksei Kosygin-himself a savvy economist-announced that by the end of the year one-third of Russia's consumer-goods factories were to switch to the Liberman system. Then, three weeks ago, Moscow disclosed an "area" trial of Libermanism...
The Eagles' growth as a basketball powerhouse was inevitable when Bob Cousy, the magnificent guard of the Boston Celtics and one of the all-time greats of the game, was named B.C.'s coach a year ago. Cousy, needless to say, has the savvy to develop fine basketball players, and...
On his return, Andreas ("my eagle," the Premier calls him) soon emerged as a real comer in Greek politics, able, ambitious and his father's son. Too much so, the opposition decided, and even his friends had occasion to agree. Like George, a savvy politician given to silvery doubletalk...
Du Pont showed as much savvy in testing and introducing Corfam as it did in developing it. First it piqued the curiosity of shoe manufacturers by sending them sample batches to make into test shoes. Du Pont inspectors went along and swept up the scraps to prevent them from falling...
Paper Army. At one point, Farago declares that Patton's "combination of dash and daring on the one side and enormous professional skill and savvy on the other qualified him even for the Supreme Command, which was eventually denied to him through the failure of his superiors to recognize...