Word: cagey
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...Harvard power play, which ranks third in the nation and has accounted for 36 percent of the team’s goals on the season, was afforded few chances by the clean and cagey Clarkson defensive corps. Limited to only two man-advantage opportunities on the evening, none of which came in the quiet first period, the Crimson had to adapt and find ways to score at even strength...
Despite the importance of Greenspan's task, he is cagey about his methods. He routinely declines press interviews and will describe his decision-making processes only via circumlocutions that even some veteran Fed watchers find confusing. He relies, of course, on factory reports, unemployment stats and other economic data. But he has also developed his own method to help evaluate the likelihood of various scenarios, assigning a probability to each outcome. His priority, he told the Senate banking committee in June, is understanding "the many sources of risk ... quantifying [them] ... and assessing the costs associated with each...
Moore's debut film, 1989's Roger & Me, made for $250,000, was bought by Warner Bros. for $3 million. It earned nearly $7 million at the box office and introduced audiences to an improbable movie star: a shaggy, cagey doofus with a killer instinct for political and comic agitation...
...Doting audiences have seen Zhao grow from elfin youth to cagey comedian. In the international hit Shaolin Soccer she plays a shy baker with an extravagant case of eczema who shaves her head, pulls some nifty martial-arts moves and wins the match, the guy and, in the film's last scene, the cover of TIME. In My Dream Girl, a ripoff of Pygmalion, she's a ragamuffin (but still quite a muffin) who elevates silliness into a showcase for urchin charm. She ranged further in two films she made with Jiang Wen: He Ping's Warriors of Heaven...
...flashy part that's too often just belted out. Lemalu is on the cusp of stardom. His first album last year, a rich collection of favorite songs like Schubert's Der Wanderer and Finzi's Rollicum-Rorum, won him the Gramophone magazine award for best newcomer. Although EMI are cagey about the figures, it sold tens of thousands - extremely good for an unknown singer - persuading the label to sign him to a five-year contract. His triumph in New Zealand music competitions led famous judges Sarah Walker and Tom Krause to recommend him to London's Royal College of Music...