Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime time with a long-sought chance to compete with the major broadcast networks. And it brings Seagram new outlets for its TV programming through HSN's 18 broadcast stations. It also enables Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to team up with pal Diller, one of TV's shrewdest programmers...
What links these two women--and dramatically shrinks the distance from Kansas City to Garden City--is one of the shrewdest applications of telecommunications technology that can be found anywhere in medicine today. In 1995 Kansas extended its network of high-speed telephone lines to reach Garden City specifically so that St. Catherine Hospital, a local 132-bed facility owned by the Dominican Sisters, could set up a compressed-video classroom and become part of the statewide nurse-practitioner program. "It breaks the isolation," says Doll, who sits in on her students' classes at the hospital. "It keeps us abreast...
...toss-up between Erik Amblad '98-'99 as the jovial but whiplash-afflicted and increasingly harried tax analyst Lenny Ganz, who takes over from Ken as mise-en-scene of "keeping up appearances," and Jesse J. Hawkes '99 as the psychotherapist Ernie Cusack, who's at once the shrewdest and the farthest off-base of the entire party...
...with then majority whip Trent Lott, but Lott couldn't deliver. Morris wanted a deal desperately. He thought it was essential to Clinton's re-election. He was wrong. Stephanopoulos and Gore were arguing that Clinton had to stand up to Gingrich on Medicare. Clinton agreed. It was the shrewdest move he made all year...
Like Esther, Mrs. Dole says, "there came a time when I had to confront what commitment to God is all about." Dole's identification with Esther is curious. Some parallels are obvious. Esther revels in her proximity to the King. She is one of the shrewdest and most political women in the Bible. But what has Elizabeth Dole risked compared with Esther? What has this two-time Cabinet Secretary, this former high-level White House aide, this $200,000-a-year president of the American Red Cross, this potential First Lady, sacrificed in her own life...