Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline business from its four other subsidiaries, all moneymakers. With only 1% of Trans World's stock, they nonetheless persuaded shareholders who control perhaps a fourth of the company to vote their way. That fell short of the required 51% majority, but Trans World Chairman L. Edwin Smart must remain worried about another challenge. Said a pleased Leon Levy, leader of Odyssey: "The same forces are still at play. Our recommendation still stands...
Thirty-five smart people from New York City have flown down to Puerto Rico on an errand that is surpassingly silly but not at all foolish. They are filming a 30-second TV commercial intended to make every woman in Europe, where it will be shown, rush out to the corner parfumerie to buy a scent called Ô de Lancôme. To do this, their script says, they must make Puerto Rico look like the south of France...
...race to find new customers and add more profitable services is going to the quick and the smart. Two years ago, Bank of America decided that the bank could buy a brokerage house without violating federal rules if it did not give customers investment advice or underwrite corporate securities offerings. Bank of America then decided to buy Charles Schwab & Co., the largest U.S. discount brokerage firm, which provides neither service. Other stockbrokers squawked, but the Federal Reserve approved the deal. Schwab is now producing nearly $400,000 a day in commissions for Bank of America, and 600 other financial institutions...
...Dave Haaga '83 2:49:25 Bill Thraymann '83 2:50:00 Andrew Klemas '85 2:57:39 David Sultan '84 2:58:00 Charles Weeks '85 2:58:58 Scott Pollack '85 3:03:00 Steve Szaraz '83 3:03:00 Margaret Waters '84 3:03:32 Mike Smart '84 3:06:30 Richard Frank '85 3:06:45 Jay North '84 3:08:00 Tony Downer '80, HLS, HBS 3:08:03 Bill Kealey '85 3:10:00 Walter Paulsen '83 3:12:55 Dave Weng '84 3:15:35 Mark Poritz '83 3:16:20 Lindy Yeager...
...style-and shoes-in 1965, after he had been appointed to a vacant seat (later he was twice elected). Though a steadfast liberal, he rarely took unpopular stands or did anything in revolt. That caution showed up more clearly when Mondale became Vice President. He was regarded as politically smart, but he also became known for his nervousness. Carter and his Cabinet members got used to Mondale's early dire warnings of the political consequences of decisions. The Israelis and the Jewish lobby especially unsettled him. When Carter decided against providing the Turks with some promised military equipment, thus...