Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elizabeth Dole is joined in her push by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, who would like the candidate to name someone shrewd, trusted and sporting enough to try to coordinate Dole's decisions as majority leader with the demands of a tough campaign against Bill Clinton. Party leaders suggest that only a few Republicans have the stature to go toe to toe with Dole: former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and former Reagan chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. But there are two problems: Dole has always jealously guarded that...
Much of the exodus can be directly linked to the departures last year of the agency's shrewd, ruthless chairman, Michael Ovitz, and its charismatic president, Ron Meyer. Both men left for studio jobs--Ovitz to Disney, Meyer to MCA. They took with them the agency's aura of invincibility and its ability to inspire fear in the Hollywood shark pool. Rivals, long resentful of the agency's No. 1 status, are smelling blood in the water...
Actually, Aetna is already well entrenched in managed care, serving 7.5 million of its 11.3 million clients through such operations. But U.S. Healthcare has proved far more aggressive and agile in establishing footholds and driving down managed-care costs, through a combination of shrewd salesmanship, sophisticated computer tracking and tough bargaining. Last year, while Aetna earned $474 million on $13 billion in revenues, a net profit of 3.64%, U.S. Healthcare's profitability was far greater. With just 2.8 million clients, it racked up $380 million in earnings on $3.6 billion in revenues, or a 10.55% net profit...
Proctor's main attribute, Carnesale said, is his ability as a "shrewd" financial manager...
...Riverdance. Composer Bill Whelan wrote the score, which uses traditional forms like the jig and the reel. And Michael Flatley, the volcanic star of the short segment, devised the choreography. All four had a background in television or the theater, which paid off in the show's drive and shrewd pacing. Americans are about to get their first look at this phenomenon...