Word: smarts
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...Thomas - the Fall Guy actress who was a leader in bikini-poster sales in the sad, dark days before we could see famous people naked all the time - is the city's most important connector in Democratic politics. She's been able to do this partly because she's smart, partly because she's a terrific networker and mostly because she married one of L.A.'s richest lawyers. Thomas has held fund raisers for John Edwards, Barbara Boxer and Al Franken, but she's best known for running a salon called the L.A. Café out of her house. Once...
...brand ladies' wear displayed on stylish wrought-iron racks. The shop also sells brand-new fair-trade clothes and accessories typically made by London College of Fashion students from organic fabrics, as well as one-of-a-kind items made from recycled clothes and other materials. One smart-looking jacket on offer for $130 has shoulders fashioned from baseball-cap bills...
...Boost phase provides certain other opportunities for the defender. As missiles rocket through the atmosphere, their thrusters emit a hot, bright tail of fire, making them an excellent target for heat-seeking infrared sensors. SDI researchers hope to develop small, inexpensive but highly accurate self-guided missiles known as ''smart rocks,'' which could home in on a rapidly moving missile or warhead and destroy it by force of impact. But if boost-phase kill is attractive, it is not easily achieved. Because infrared sensors cannot ''see'' around the curve of the earth, they must be in an orbit high enough...
Globalization was just phase 1. Get ready for a new wave of challengers, "bursting their way onto the big stage." So say the three authors of this smart analysis about the latest developments in global competition: "One day, it may be your company that Tata Group wants to acquire, your child calling home from Shanghai, your job moving to Mexico City and your brand-new Changfeng gleaming in the driveway." The trio urges U.S. companies to fight back by creating low-cost, high-quality and ingenious products and by reaching deep into big markets. And to "adapt, adopt and synthesize...
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