Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incomes. When these measures failed to stem the developing run on sterling, Wilson summoned his Cabinet and again went over the options, from raising the bank rate to borrowing heavily abroad. In the end, Wilson did both, and Lord Cromer, Governor of the Bank of England, was a shrewd adviser as U.S. Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa and others rounded up a life-saving fund of $3 billion from key banks of the West...
...Shrewd Device. Brilliant Anthony Crosland, 46, as Education Minister, has the task of working vast changes in the social shape of Britain. Crosland hopes to persuade the exclusive public schools to take a much higher proportion of scholarship students, is determined to fulfill Labor's goal to rid education of the so-called "eleven-plus" examination that in state-run schools forces children apart at the age of eleven-the top group streaming off to the academically superior "grammar schools," and the rest going on to conventional secondary schools. He will also implement Wilson's decision to open...
...early as 1819, reports reached Russia that U.S. seizure of the colony was imminent (it wasn't). The conviction grew that as long as U.S. takeover was inevitable anyway, it would be a shrewd move to surrender Alaska for a song. Such a show of friendship would surely improve the already cordial U.S.Russian relations. The trouble was that the U.S. showed little appetite for the gift-even though the Russians asked only $7,200,000 for the territory. In the end, the U.S. bought Alaska with the feeling that it was doing a favor for a friend, taking some...
However merited such criticism, it thankfully does not apply to Peanuts and his breed. The newcomers offer shrewd insight and warm affirmation without stooping to violence or escapism. Gingerly, tentatively but hopefully, the comics are beginning to comment on life, confront social issues and satirize some sacred cows. And none of them do this so engagingly-or so successfully-as Charles Schulz's Peanuts...
...Shrewd Merchant. It began quite by accident. One of eight daughters of a Cracow merchant, Helena gave up studying medicine and emigrated to Australia in 1890 in hopes of finding a husband. She eventually found two, becoming once divorced and once widowed. Before that, however, she found success. As appalled by the dry, flaky skin of Australia's hardy pioneer women as she later was by American complexions, Helena began selling a potion made of almonds and tree bark. The formula made her $100,000 within three years, and she set sail for Europe, where she opened a Mayfair...