Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, CNN's tour de force was the result of months of advance planning and shrewd lobbying. Last September it became the only news organization to win Iraq's permission to use a "four-wire," a highly reliable two-way overseas telephone connection that requires no operators or switching connections and can continue working even when local power lines are cut. "We went door to door, day after day," says Ed Turner, the cable network's executive vice president. "We became the biggest nuisances the Iraqi government ever saw until the arrival of the U.S. Air Force." By U.S. standards...
...impossible to separate those two events. They form a package. Once the rifles were truly drawn, once the liberation of Kuwait, no more than a rhetorical goal during the first days of the crisis, became the real objective of policy, an ultimatum was shrewd strategy. "The advantage of having a deadline is that it creates the maximum pressure for a peaceful solution in the last days," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. Now the deadline is upon us, and it cannot be ignored. If it is, nothing will ever work...
Solid-Gold Mogul Music-and-movie hitmaker David Geffen made a shrewd move in April when he sold his record label to MCA for about $550 million of that company's stock. Just seven months later, when Japanese giant Matsushita bought MCA, the value of Geffen's holdings zoomed to $700 million. It's all in the timing...
...guarantees that people will buy tickets or snatch up the videocassette. He didn't need a plastic surgeon or a movie-agent Mephistopheles to become Arnold; his eminence is a triumph of the will. Even if he weren't a celebrity, he would be richer than Webster; his shrewd entrepreneurship and real estate investments have made him tens of millions. As for the girl, he got her: Maria Shriver, NBC newscaster and Kennedy niece. When he is not chumming with the clan in Hyannis Port, he is stumping for George Bush or serving as chairman of the President's Council...
...knows the shrewd and innovative Chilean entrepreneur, however, expects the loss of the Iraqi account to set him back for long. With a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, Cardoen first worked in the U.S. and Chile as a mining engineer. He founded the company that bears his name in 1977, after Chile's former President, General Augusto Pinochet, whose repressive government was the object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate...