Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ought to have found Malenkov's breathing-spell policy congenial. But his shrewd nose for tactics told him not to commit himself to Malenkov. Although First Party Secretary Khrushchev might have seemed to Mikoyan a clodhopping countryman, Khrushchev had one prime quality that Mikoyan valued-political skill. Khrushchev could handle himself well in party scraps, and alone among Soviet leaders he could talk to the people. Outwardly, the Presidium was a crowd of collectively equal commissars, punching each other playfully in the ribs at Foreign Office receptions. But when Malenkov was bounced from the premiership in 1955, both Shepilov...
Industrial Psychologist Donald N. Michael of Stamford, Conn, suggested that the best place to look for such women might be Russia, where women are encouraged to develop technical skill. The Soviet government, he had heard, is experimenting with putting women in isolation chambers to see whether they will prove to be the most resistant subjects...
Cons & Confidence. The mark of Hoffa's skill is that he has been able to win widespread confidence on both sides of the bargaining table while borrowing money under curious circumstances from businessmen with Teamster contracts, consorting with hoods and ruthlessly pushing around local Teamster leaders who got in his way. He teamed up with New York Racketeer Johnny Dio to discredit old-time Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey and to dethrone Martin Lacey from the presidency of the powerful New York Teamsters Joint Council 16 (some 60 locals). Hoffa succeeded ultimately: his man John O'Rourke finally...
...influence of the sworn enemy of the people and the party, the provocateur Beria," and become the late secret-police boss's "shadow and tool." Said Khrushchev: "Holding a high position in the party and state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back, but with great skill made use of the weaknesses and habits of Stalin during the last years of his life. On many occasions, he prompted him to actions which deserve the strongest condemnation." One such occasion: the 1949 "Leningrad affair," in which hundreds of ranking Communists were purged on manufactured evidence...
...clinic, a library, a clubhouse, a credit union. Profit-sharing, retirement benefits, summer Saturday closings, systematic job evaluations, even sending executives to the Harvard Business School-all were pioneered by the Filenes. Said Lincoln: "Every release of the worker to more use of his mind, every addition to his skill, means steadily better wages. Society can well afford to pay a steadily rising wage bill so long as it is steadily enriched by new intelligence...