Word: cagey
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Going Rogue is part cagey spin, part earnest autobiography, part payback...
...from near obscurity to claim a place in a hall of infamy along with the Saudi Osama bin Laden, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaeda (who are still at large) and the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed while leading the radical insurgency in Iraq. Cagey, dogged and charismatic, Mehsud had a knack for uniting disparate factions around a common cause; he transformed the badlands of South Waziristan into the most important redoubt for the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda. He denied involvement in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...
Baitullah Mehsud is a natural leader: cagey, dogged and charismatic, with an apparent knack for uniting disparate factions around a common cause. But instead of channeling those talents toward building an empire, Mehsud is trying to bring one to its knees. The shadowy Pakistani Taliban commander, whose vertiginous rise to infamy landed him on 2008's TIME 100 List, has transformed the badlands of South Waziristan into al-Qaeda's most important redoubt. Among the atrocities attributed to Mehsud is the brazen assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Dec. 2007. Mehsud has denied involvement, but even...
...with the "stress tests" big banks are conducting under regulators' supervision, the asset sales could move the government farther down the road toward closing or taking over the most troubled banks. The operative word here is could - Geithner and top White House economic adviser Larry Summers have been awfully cagey about what comes next. The more plainspoken Bair allowed that the asset-purchase plan "will be a significant benefit to many banks, but some will be beyond help." Soon we may find out which hopeless banks she's talking about...
...also runs a wholesale-distribution business to supply them. Getting in to see him is hard. A security guard wants to know whether we are American spies. Petrov's deputy, Viktor Denisov, nervously locks his office door when he crosses the corridor to see his boss. Petrov is deliberately cagey about business prospects. Yes, an economic crisis is now raging, "but this is not the first time we've had one," he says. Indeed, back in 1998, Denisov says mysteriously, "it was a crisis that helped us move a step ahead." Business, both insist, has not been affected. But press...