Word: cagey
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...stock was worth less than $20. With prudent investments in blue-chip companies such as Coca-Cola and Capital Cities/ABC, Buffett drove BH into the low thirties--$30,000, that is. By refusing to split the stock into smaller units, Buffett effectively kept speculators at bay, until a few cagey money managers figured out that they could form investment trusts with Berkshire Hathaway shares in their portfolios and then sell fractional units at affordable prices...
Paramilitary units, says Seselj, knew they were doing the bidding of Milosevic, but his leadership was always cagey. He did not issue direct war commands; he merely made his "intentions" plain and "requested" that his subordinates devise ways to carry them out. "I never heard Milosevic order ethnic cleansing," says Seselj, "but I can give examples of indirect invitations to do such things." The President passed those invitations through the secret police, says Seselj. They in turn invited the paramilitaries to "liberate" areas Serbia coveted or "defend" Serb-minority towns. Seselj admits his unit fought under such directives, but says...
...producers of a big-screen Civil War blood spurter that features "the most widely discussed mass rape scene in screen history." Crease is also suing his insurance company, which isn't paying him for injuries suffered when his stalled car suddenly ran over him. His father, a cagey federal judge, is hearing the case of an artist who wants | to save his public sculpture from being dismantled to free a dog trapped underneath. Additional court time is provided by Trish, a nattering friend of Oscar's long-suffering stepsister and a walking lawsuit...
...robber (Robert Burke) and his decent younger brother (William Sage) search for their father, "the radical shortstop," who played for the Dodgers in the '50s and reputedly bombed the Pentagon in the '60s. Fugitive and busted on Long Island, the brothers fall in with the Hartley stock company of cagey women and forlorn men. To their deadpan surprise, the brothers find that they are needed. Or at least tolerated. Tolerated will...
...this year's team was for real, that last weekend's overtime win against highly-ranked Columbia was no fluke. But he was missing Craig "Pepper" Brill and Tanner Sly, his two best defenders, and facing a coaching legend in the University of Connecticut's Joe Morrone. Morrone, the cagey godfather of Storrs, Conn., was entering his 500th game and had compiled an amazing 309-143-47 record. He hasn't had a losing season in 15 years...