Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Selig, the affable car dealer who owns the Milwaukee Brewers, has been serving as de facto commissioner since September. "We'll have a commissioner," Selig insists. "We have a search committee in progress. But it's hard to say when." A shrewd guess is not until there is a new baseball labor agreement. The owners fear that a new commissioner -- no matter how limited his formal mandate -- would try to avert a spring-training lockout in 1994 as Vincent did in 1980. "The owners have decided that they get along better without a commissioner," theorizes the unrepentant Vincent. "Any commissioner...
Though Aspin ranked seventh in seniority on the committee, his expertise on military matters so impressed his colleagues that he beat out two contenders, including the chairman, for the top job in 1985. He promptly showed his shrewd, dealmaking side by setting up what is euphemistically called the Member Services group on his staff. Aide Larry Smith, now counselor-designee at the Pentagon, ran what was really an old-fashioned political pork operation, assuring committee members that their interests would be looked after in exchange for their vote on committee affairs. Committee members who went along got along. Those...
...pushing a deficit-cutting program that specifically aims to stand Reaganomics on its ear. But as a bandwagon driver, Clinton is getting off to a start that either of his quick- off-the-mark predecessors might envy. Like them, he is capitalizing on a combination of shrewd planning, guile in bargaining and no little luck to put a stamp on policy that could be lasting...
...deliberately. When asked to choose a handler to deliver their next cup of juice, chimps prefer the clumsy person, suggesting that they are aware they are better off with a klutz than with a helper with evil intent. Again, in analogous experiments capuchin monkeys appear to be less shrewd. The animals will, pitiably, continue to put their trust in a human helper who eats rather than delivers their food, even after he or she has stuffed himself 150 times with the monkeys' treats...
...ANDREW form an alliance, at first mutually suspicious, then mutually instructive, aimed at getting them both back to the mainland unscathed. Writer-director E. Max Frye doesn't quite know how to end his comedy, but his actors know how to play it. The result is energetic, affable, occasionally shrewd social satire...