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William & Mary took Army's place on this year's Harvard football schedule, and that might have been the shrewdest scheduling move in a long time...
...Thatcher was by far the strongest, the shrewdest and the most clear-sighted player in the game. A statesman is a leader who, knowing where the true interests of the nation lie, resists counsel that .clashes with conviction. Margaret Thatcher belongs in that company. But when I say that in the Falklands, the West was given a great victory by Britain, I do not mean the defeat of Argentinian soldiers by British soldiers. British arms prevailed, but principle triumphed. The will of the West...
...that when the verdict finally arrived last week, the Japanese paid almost as much attention to it as they would have to the real Judgment Day. But then, the seven-year court battle did star Kakuei Tanaka, the former Prime Minister who still reigns as the country's shrewdest powerbroker. As the dark blue Chrysler sedan wheeled Tanaka from his palatine compound on the fringes of Tokyo to the courthouse downtown, a swarm of 17 helicopters loaded with TV cameras and newsmen followed along overhead. Arriving at the Tokyo District Court, Tanaka faced a jostling battalion of some...
Marc Rich is one of the shrewdest and most successful commodity traders in the world. Acquaintances estimate his personal fortune at up to $1 billion. After starting his own firm in 1974 with about $5 million in seed money, Rich built a group of companies that last year traded some $10 billion worth of such commodities as oil, gold, aluminum, sulfur and sugar...
...staggering cost of borrowing money at today's rates can wreck the business plan of even the shrewdest corporation. In 1980 Wickes Corp., a $2 billion San Diego lumber and furniture seller, bought Gamble-Skogmo, a struggling Minneapolis-based retailer, in an attempt to ease its dependence on the highly cyclical housing industry. Wickes executives were enthusiastic at the time, even though the deal doubled the company's debt load to nearly $2 billion. After both the housing and the retailing businesses unexpectedly went into a simultaneous slump last year, Wickes ran up huge losses that could exceed...