Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at Perot's history, as reported in the media in recent weeks, reveals shrewd use of the corrupt system about which he complains...
...western Germany's work force. The 5.4% wage hike they squeezed out of the government is, ironically, precisely the amount accepted by the union and rejected by the government when an arbitrator recommended it well before the strike began on April 27. The union's chief weapon was its shrewd, tough-talking president, Monika Wulf- Mathies, who brilliantly calibrated the walkouts to demonstrate the union's power without antagonizing the public. No more than 430,000 members stayed off the job at any one time, limiting the strike's damage to levels other citizens could tolerate. Business losses and public...
...BRADLEY'S ONLY VISIBLY SHREWD MOVE DURING THE RODNEY KING RIOTS was a request for an hour of crisis counterprogramming. Last Thursday he encouraged Channel 4, the NBC-owned and -operated Los Angeles outlet, to air The Cosby Show's farewell broadcast as originally scheduled. Maybe the mayor was just another fan of Bill Cosby's who did not want to be denied closure. Maybe he thought the Cos would calm the populace. Maybe he wanted to give the anchors a chance to repair their hairdos. Or maybe he just wanted to make at least one pair of them shut...
...disaster; the only family that counted with him was the team and the raffish demimonde it inhabited off the field. Ruth fared better the second time around. Claire Ruth (Kelly McGillis, in a brave, hard-nosed performance), a sometime show girl, had nothing against partying, but she was tough, shrewd and -- probably the only kind of woman Ruth could understand -- roughly affectionate, a little bit like one of the guys. In any case, you can't characterize their relationship as either tender or traditionally romantic...
...Howell, who is retiring after 42 years in the Arkansas senate. "He has negotiated the most meaningful gains that anyone could have." Political scientist David England at Arkansas State University agrees: "He has been as effective as any Governor could be in Arkansas," partly because Clinton has shown a shrewd sense of what reforms were attainable and concentrated on them. Says England: "He has taken on only what he thought was possible. Pushing too hard on one thing would have blown others...