Word: shrewd
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...mascot, installed a mechanical rabbit to bring baseballs to the umpire. He gave the game the garish doubleknit uniforms that became commonplace. He harassed his managers by telephoning strategy to the dugout, yet installed a 16-year-old fan as vice president. For all his buffoonery, Finley was as shrewd a judge of talent as any in the sport since Branch Rickey. Roll the names over in the mind: Jackson, Rudi, Bando, Hunter, Fingers, Blue. But he lost them all, and others, because he was unwilling to pay them well. Toward the end, he ordered that his players' half...
...first it looked like a shrewd way to expand U.S. influence in oil-rich, pro-Western Saudi Arabia, without unduly roiling its troubled near neighbor Israel. But by last week the prospective deal had turned into something of an Arabian nightmare. By spelling out just what would be included in $5 billion worth of modern weaponry, which he intends to sell to the Saudis, Ronald Reagan set a time bomb ticking toward an explosive congressional battle over his foreign policy...
...exudes a certain air of contentment. He should. Last year Bronfman sold the Texas Pacific Oil Co., which Seagram had bought in 1963 for $256 million, to the Sun Co., for $2.3 billion. Bronfman's nest egg has since grown to a stunning $3 billion through shrewd asset management, and he is now leisurely looking for a place to invest the money. Says he: "It's a little like matchmaking. There are a lot of willing brides, but the boy has still to make up his mind...
...most assessments, Brezhnev's speech was a shrewd blend of propaganda, gamesmanship and tantalizing concessions. The Soviet President and party chief appeared to have given a bit here, stonewalled a bit there, and cast his remarks in conciliatory terms that skillfully placed the onus of response on the West. "We had expected him to be statesmanlike and cautious," said a Kremlin watcher in London, "but he went even further-both in what he said and what he didn't say. Wherever he could, he avoided the abrasive issues in Soviet-American relations. He was consciously turning the other...
...that it's a museum piece. Port Tropique remains an adventure story. But it is an adventure story stripped of almost everything but certain odd luminous moments and executed with such shrewd knowingness, such literary hipness that it becomes "experimental" and "artistic...