Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poland's Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek arrives in Washington this week for an eight-day state visit, bringing with him a reputation as one of the East bloc's shrewdest leaders. Since 1970, when dock workers' strikes over high food prices brought him to the head of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party, Gierek has overseen booming economic development and the evolution of the Warsaw Pact countries' most politically permissive society. Relying heavily on foreign credits (and risking what he hopes will be temporary trade deficits), Gierek has purchased huge amounts of Western technology...
...Braves, of course, did not acquire all this talent by accident. General Manager Eddie Donovan is one of the shrewdest traders and drafters in pro basketball. Before corning to Buffalo. Donovan built the Knicks into a championship team by drafting the likes of Bill Bradley, Walt Frazier and Willis Reed, and trading for Dave De Busschere and Dick Barnett. In Buffalo. Donovan found in Owner Paul Snyder a man who was eager to underwrite similar maneuvering with a philosophy that "good players deserve high salaries...
...magician performed a beautiful trick, then pulled back the curtains to show how he did it. This new movie of Truffaut's is just such a revelation, a sly and loving tribute to the elaborate and inspiring chaos of film making-and Truffaut's funniest, shrewdest, most relaxed work in some time...
Japan's Konosuke Matsushita, a peasant's son, built one of the world's largest companies by following his instincts. One of the shrewdest hunches came in 1940, when an aristocratic young banker caught Matsushita's eye. The gregarious businessman was so impressed with Masaharu Hirata that he not only arranged for him to marry his only daughter but also adopted...
...hint came last December in a slightly different regulatory case. The court decided that state liquor authorities had the power to withhold liquor licenses from places that featured bottomless dancers or erotic films. Considering that ruling as well as the general inclinations of the men on the court, the shrewdest observers are betting that every pornography case will go in favor of tighter controls...