Word: shrewd
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...Though slightly more liberal in their leanings, Yeltsin and his regime are nowhere near the democracy we in America would like to think. Yeltsin's dissolution of parliament and subsequent use of force to quell protests exemplify his disdain for the democratic political process. Yeltsin is a shrewd politician and a master at manipulating the West into believing he represents Russia's only realistic possibility for change and economic transformation. Neil K. Malik Attleboro, Massachusetts
...Joker may be insane, but he's a shrewd judge of character. He knows that Batman has two vulnerable spots: his girlfriend Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, assuming the role Katie Holmes had in the first film) and his hidden identity. So the Joker starts preying on Rachel, and he says he'll stop terrorizing Gotham if Batman will come out from under the mask. A modest request from the bin Laden of movie villains, yet Bruce is reluctant. Or rather, the film is, since the informing principle of any franchise is perpetuation of the series. No secret, no Batman - just...
...most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. But Buffett, for all his affability, is shrewd about disengaging himself to avoid any unnecessary distractions that might impair his judgment. People often try to convince him to meet with them so they can pitch investments to him, he said, but he sees through their many ruses - not least their flattery - and is comfortable saying no far more often than he says...
...citizen lacks it. Obama's original mistake was not in declining to wear the flag pin but in saying he had stopped wearing it because he saw "people wearing a lapel pin but not acting very patriotic." And that's what makes his current adoption of the symbol so shrewd. By opposing the Iraq war in the fevered year after 9/11--when some Bush supporters branded doves unpatriotic--he has already expressed an understanding of patriotism particularly beloved by liberals: patriotism as lonely dissent. Now he is expressing an understanding particularly important to the conservatives he must court: patriotism as symbolic...
...very time-consuming." As he speaks, the power cuts out and a private generator kicks in, raising the day's power costs. "Buyers come to developing countries to save," sighs Srinivasan. "But in the conditions we work under, our margins are tightly squeezed." So his firm controls costs in shrewd though legal ways: "Overtime pay is twice the regular pay. To cut costs, we don't make workers put in extra hours - we just employ more people...