While a Google hire might have to endure round after round of interviews, a savvy company can pluck off a candidate at the manager level and below by hitting him with an offer--and giving him or her just a few days to respond.

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Britons were proud of the pluck shown by staging the games at all.

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Citigroup executives say it was Mr. Buiter's strong views that caused them to pluck him from academia in 2009, when he was a professor at the London School of Economics.

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At CES, expect to see digital picture frames that use wi-fi to pluck photos from e-mail and RSS feeds without going through a personal computer.

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Credit the indomitable human spirit, as exemplified by the innovations chronicled in this issue, in an 85th-anniversary section supervised by Tom Post, assistant managing editor at FORBES. For most people at most times, life does get better, thanks to those who combine ideas with inventiveness or business pluck.

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