Word: smarts
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While Stockman has no experience in corporate finance or security trading, his reputation as a workaholic numbers cruncher with an unsurpassed knowledge of Government financing was enough to satisfy his new employer. Said John Gutfreund, chief executive of Phibro-Salomon Inc.: "He's young, he's smart, there are new worlds for him to conquer." Before he joins the firm in November, Stockman has told friends, he plans to write a tell-all book. That could bring in an additional $1 million...
...part of a deliberate, Machiavellian plot to create support for the older product. Said he: "Some critics will say Coca-Cola has made a marketing mistake. Some cynics say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is, we're not that dumb, and we're not that smart...
...degrees; a photo taken with Attorney General Edwin Meese; another photo taken years ago on Tinian, showing Agnew and his fellow scientists at a briefing session the night before the Hiroshima bombing; and near his desk, a framed photo of his wife Beverly, now 65, looking crisp and very smart...
...ourselves and on people we know. While brainstorming over drinks, though, we realized that to conform to popular conceptions of Harvardians—and we are unabashedly aiming for a mass market with our book—our hero-students would have to be a lot more ostentatiously smart and accomplished than we are. It would be useful, for instance, if they knew Latin, and also kung fu. These are not accomplishments any of us possess. The more self-consciously Harvard we made our characters, the farther they departed from us and from people we knew...
...appointed Eckhard Cordes, his point man on the 1998 merger with Chrysler, as CEO of Mercedes with clear orders to clean things up fast. And there was good news on other fronts. Schrempp said he expects the Smart division to break even in 2007 and that, despite the huge restructuring charge, Daimler's 2005 operating earnings will still top the j5.8 billion it earned in 2004. Some Daimler divisions have proven it's possible to turn the corner, as have other carmakers. Overall, conditions are tough, though. The industry is plagued by overcapacity and price wars. PriceWaterhouse- Coopers estimates that...