Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public appearances, rather than spreading her wings, she seems to be nesting. Whereas she once wanted to colonize no less than one-seventh of the economy with her health-care plan, consider the role she played in this year's budget. Her fingerprints are all over dozens of small, shrewd programs. She was the driving force behind the tax credit for stay-at-home moms (per-person average: $178), the $50 million in grants to help children on Medicaid treat their asthma, and more money to train pediatricians in children's hospitals. She recently attended an event designed to inform...
...WILD CARD Shrewd purchases (Tripod, WhoWhere, HotBot) have pushed Lycos to the No. 4 spot in the Web hit parade; it's the last portal prize left on the table
...cover of any successful magazine is a shrewd advertisement for what lies inside. Maxim's each month features one buxom starlet or another leaning over or hunching her shoulders or toying with her bikini top. Inside, between pseudo service articles on, say, how to sneak into the Super Bowl or date women in prison, are pictures of more chesty starlets, along with the occasional female athlete who could pass for one. It should be noted that most of these images are far less risque than a Varga girl...
...CHARMING BILLY The title character, Billy Lynch, has just been buried when this shrewd, elegiac novel opens. Alice McDermott shows Billy's family and friends in a Bronx bar, hoisting a few drinks to the memory of the deceased, a hopeless alcoholic. The author does not underscore this irony; she lets her characters talk, to each other and themselves, and turns in a clear-eyed portrait of Irish-American life...
Back in 1986, when Espy became the first black elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, he looked like the archetype of a new breed of crossover politician--shrewd enough to reach out to whites by standing up for prayer in schools and by posing in ads for the National Rifle Association. Even some good ole boys predicted that he would someday be Governor or Senator. Though he was doing a terrific job, Espy was forced out of office for chump change. Instead of moving on to a glittering future, he got kicked out of the Cabinet in disgrace...