Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan to become a television star, she went to the Spence School and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her professional debut in 1951 on Robert Montgomery Presents, playing opposite her father in a spy story. He did not think that he was uncovering a great talent and in fact tried to discourage her from becoming an actress, hoping that she would be sensible like her brother, who is now a customer's man in a Wall Street brokerage firm. When she would not be dissuaded, he gave her plenty of roles...
Without hiring any outside talent-not even a management consultant to advise him-Burnham got to work on Westinghouse's fat and dust-covered corporate structure. He reshuffled ten top executives into new jobs, split up the centralized chain of command to give everyone more responsibilities, created a president's council in which he and his lieutenants can make decisions without indulging in the long delays and lengthy memos that once characterized Westinghouse. He slashed costs by more than $20 million by getting rid of 3,825 white-collar employees, shaved inventories by $8,000,000 with...
...rules of the game, no one should expect much literary talent from a rock 'n' roll singer. Past disk heroes have not been known for wit, loquacity, or literacy...
...Representative Miller may make against Humphrey, he can never accuse him of lacking imagination. Moreover, liberal fears to the contrary, the Minnesota Senator will probably exert considerable influence on new policy. Himself only months removed from the Vice-Presidency, Johnson is not about to take a man of unquestioned talent and energy and relegate him, in the words of Everett Dirksen, to "shuffle around the world eating camels' eyes at potentates' tables...
...programs of the thirties to the policies necessary for the sixties and seventies must remain uncertain for the moment. But we believe he can and will. Johnson's motivation, like Kennedy's when he became President, is to make secure his place in history. Such ambition combined with talent and energy give hope for the next four years as a time of great fulfillment as the last four years were a time of great promise...