Word: shrewd
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...create a commission of truly impartial investigators requires a lot of shrewd judgments. After much inquiry, United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim finally picked the five members. Both the U.S. and Iran warily weighed them and then approved. The five are all men with low profiles and high marks for integrity. They all have experience in three main areas-the law, diplomacy and human rights. The commissioners...
...addition to his strength, discipline and sheer natural speed, Heiden has another edge: he is a shrewd competitor. Speaking of the 10,000, his final test, he told TIME Associate Editor B.J. Phillips last week: "It is a strategy race. You have your intervals [planned times for each lap] and you try to keep to them but, within that, there are things you can do to work on the other guy. You can try to get behind him for a few moments and let him break the wind for you, like race-car drivers do. Or you can pick...
Evans said they had planned to go to the tribe they were studying because its people could easily get them to French Guyana. "These are very, very shrewd people" who would have no trouble evading the soldiers, Evans said...
...felt if I charged him for the medication, his father would blow a gasket." - Nichopoulos, who said he acted like a brother, father and counselor to his patient, occasionally tried to placate Presley with placebos. But the singer, who kept his own medical reference books, was apparently too shrewd for these ploys. After he confided what he had done, Dr. Nick said, Presley replied that he knew it and that he was just playing along...
Verisimilitude is only one of several virtues of Don Carpenter's shrewd and tightly written novel. Comedians contains just one star other than its central comics, and she is only a walk-on. It needs no more. The cast is perfect, and the comedy unfailingly original. There are no libidinous or abusive producers, no hysterically egomaniac directors, not even a failed novelist making a rich, bitter livelihood by writing for the screen. The author has been a novelist (Hard Rain Falling, The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan); he has also been a movie and TV working stiff...