During the holidays, agencies tend to create whiz-bang cards to show off their creativity.
He brings a record as a turnaround whiz to Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ), a company desperately in need of new direction.
At 32 he struck out on his own, teaming up with Edward Linde, a numbers whiz, to start Boston Properties.
Mr. SCHACTMAN: Basically, the idea is to take some of the really boring, stayed simulations that everybody uses throughout the military and add some videogame whiz-bang to them because, look.
There's an initial gee-whiz coolness to the experience.
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Of course, RIM could just add IMAP support directly to its phones so that this whiz-bang tech would work with any third-party email service and wouldn't have to go through BIS in the process, but that would be crazy talk, right?
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Since being a math or tech whiz is irrelevant to running most businesses, some companies have redoubled their efforts to find the perfect match of candidate and corporate personality.
It is so easy to get caught up in the whiz-bang, wah!
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The Whiz Mob represented a chance to put his criminal skills to legitimate use and earn the money for hip-replacement surgery, though he was wary.
That's the sort of thing that Girish Wagh, one of the breakfast-meeting whiz kids, was working to foster when Kant called him in unexpectedly in December 2000.
In 2004, Karl Rove was George W. Bush's numbers whiz, using sophisticated data analysis to decide where and when to spend money.
Figuring she wasn't alone, she approached friend and computer whiz Garrett Berg about building an algorithm to convert apparel sizes from one retailer to another.
The prison personnel were quite cooperative, especially a young officer considered the local computer whiz kid, who seized the opportunity to learn more about modern software.
Never a whiz at finance, Branson early on learned to exploit the power of hype.
And Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, math whiz, actually got most of his House colleagues to approve a politically risky spending-reduction bill with modest cuts to Medicare.
Hoover imagines a toll-taking scenario where you can get rid of clunky FastPass-style devices and instead simply take pictures of cars as they whiz by key checkpoints without even requiring the vehicles to slow down.
There is a formula to making a tech company sound credible, say start-up whiz kids and comics alike.
It is time to abandon, finally, the description of Microsoft as a gee-whiz tech stock.
The person having a busy day wasn't the middle-aged Dr. Schwartz, but an alluring 26-year-old PR whiz, Christina Salgado, who posts six tweets a day to Schwartz's page.
This time the play belongs to Luke Treadaway as 15-year-old Christopher, a mathematics whiz, who (says the program) has Asperger syndrome, behaves obsessively and can't bear being touched.
But instead of fessing up that he had obeyed only the letter of the law, he insisted yesterday that, gee whiz, the earlier tax dodge didn't even occur to him -- an excuse that came off as legalistic and implausible.
The Democrats' version is to focus more on the ports and transit systems, especially by using gee-whiz tech devices.
Reintroducing Fiat cars to Americans is an intensely personal mission for the sprightly 38-year-old marketing whiz whose knack for tapping into consumer lifestyles outside of traditional advertising venues caught the eye of Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of both Fiat Autos SpA and Chrysler Group.
The Bush team loves to recall the moment in the summer of 1997 when Karen Hughes, Bush's communications whiz, walked into the Governor's office with a poll showing him suddenly ahead of all the other Republican contenders.
"The second you start looking to be 'cool, ' you're dead, " says trendsetter Kevin Rose, the tech whiz behind a host of "cool" products, including social-bookmarking Web site Digg and online video network Revision3.
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