Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sulzberger's first, and gutsiest, moves was to shut down the hemorrhaging West Coast edition. More important, he started diversifying the Times by buying Cowles Communications, with its lucrative magazines (Family Circle, Golf Digest) and small newspapers. Diversification, according to Columnist James Reston, has been Sulzberger's shrewdest move to date. "With more of the company's earnings coming from outside the paper," says Reston, "Punch could confront the unions with the fact that we could take a strike if necessary...
...ever released from his self-imposed servitude, says Jordan, he would consider teaching or writing-or becoming an ambassador, just to "shake 'em up." Powell says he wants to raise hunting dogs: "I'm going to be the shrewdest damn political observer that has ever raised dogs in Vienna, Ga." Could it be? An ambassador who loathes neckties and a quipster with no audience for his one-liners but a pack of droopy-eared hounds? With Ham and Jody, as Washington is learning, anything is possible...
Brezhnev did not make the mistake of moving all the way toward one-man power, as Khrushchev did during his last days. Therefore, responsibility for success or failure could be shared with other members of the Politburo. Brezhnev-praised by Richard Nixon more than once as the shrewdest of shrewd politicians-accomplished "collegia!" rule with astonishing success. He has nonetheless had mixed results in foreign policy, his principal achievement having been to convince his colleagues that detente with the West is desirable and necessary. The thriving state of Communist parties in Italy, France and elsewhere is taken by Moscow...
...magic they featured. From the start it was generally, and to some degree falsely, understood that the new Kong would stand or fall on how realistic the big monkey would seem on screen. Producer De Laurentiis, being no fool, has stressed the expense of his efforts to satisfy the shrewdest eye as to Kong's believability, while playing up the drama of doing so against a self-imposed deadline of release before Christmas...
...candidates, the "ordeal" of the primaries may have required airplane hops, and dawn appearances at factory gates, and facial muscles tightened into frozen smiles, but the long march did not really involve much intellectual strain. The shrewdest among them had their act well in place and The Speech well learned. They solved the problem of television, with its terrible rate of consuming new material, by going back to the era of vaudeville acts, when Burns and Allen or Weber and Fields could play the same skit week after week from coast to coast, testing new lines, honing the delivery, refining...