Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleading telegrams, the arrival or departure of a pezzo grosso (big shot). Finally the white-haired old gentleman in the villa gave in -as he probably intended to do all along. And so, five days after his resignation as president of Italy's Constitutional Court (TIME, Oct. 1), shrewd Enrico de Nicola, 78, went back...
Since he saved enough money as a reporter to buy his first newspaper 41 years ago, shrewd Oscar Stauffer, 69, has bought twelve small dailies (total circ. 110,000) and three radio stations,* chiefly in Kansas and the Midwest. Last week, at a single stroke, Stauffer took over the vaster domain (total circ. 5,000,000) of another self-made publisher, Kansas' late Senator Arthur Capper. Reported purchase price...
Compared to the tired cheeriness of many disk jockeys, Shepherd's offbeat humor is refreshing. Much of his talk is pure doubletalk, but some is shrewd, if cockeyed, comment from an educated comic (B.A., Maryland U.; M.A. in psychology, Indiana). The greatest thing America has to fear, he avers, is "creeping meatballism," i.e., "the adulation of all that is mediocre-the 'nothings' in the world that have become fads." In the day people v. night people conflict, the night people are in danger because the day folk-who "live in an endless welter of train schedules, memo...
Actually, buying the Suez Canal Company's shares now makes excellent sense to speculators. Whatever happens to its canal holdings, the company possesses a shrewd management and impressive assets outside Egypt. Long before Nasser took over, the company had been preparing to get out. Anticipating the end of the 99-year concession in 1968, it bought back more than half the original shares for redemption, paying off in cash and new limited-dividend shares. The company has also been diversifying into foreign investments, today holds shares in some 700 corporations all over the world, with an estimated book value...
...inefficient despotism is preferable to an efficient one. With a visionary eye he looked across the steppes of history and foresaw that the witless crudity of the Czar's bureaucrats might be less evil than a regime speaking in the name of brotherly love. Herzen's shrewd mind took the slogans of Europe's libertarian movement and arrived at the wisdom of the American Negro spiritual-"Everybody talkin' 'bout heaven-ain't goin' there...