Word: shrewd
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...defense strategy played into the hand of the prosecution by accepting the government's grounds of argument-that espionage had been committed at all. The minor party members who sucked up to the Isaacsons had as superficial social reasons for their socialism as the major party figures had shrewd ones, Liberals sell out their heritage with efforts to assimilate, and only the conservatives they placate have a clear idea of their political interests...
...DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE. Luis Buñuel's intricate and elegant dissection of middle-class amorality, shrewd and very funny...
...itch to travel can be summarily scratched, the hunger for acquisition is not so easily appeased. No need to parody the King Ranch; the cynic can start small. A shrewd shopper may buy an entire ten-acre island in Deerskin Lake, Wis., for $115,000. For a bit more, the Bahamas' entire Whale Cay, complete with mansion and matching village can be acquired: 650 acres, 20 minutes by plane from downtown Nassau, seven white-sand beaches, and all priced to sell at $3,500,000. Is the purchaser partial to antiques? He can live in one (when...
...manipulates them. That golden age, as a line in the script defines it, was "when every Cabinet Minister had a thriller by his bedside, and all the detectives were titled." To fully enjoy Sleuth, it is necessary to have an indulgent affection for this minor literary tradition. Shaffer is shrewd with a plot turn and smooth with breezy characterization. But he asks us, as did Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie or any other reigning monarch of the golden age, to accept too much and think too little...
...view of Willard Rappleye, editor of the influential American Banker, is the rise of medium-sized, highly profitable regional banks with assets of $1 billion or so. These institutions, especially in Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida and Texas, have gained strong positions in their areas, largely through shrewd acquisitions by their holding companies of independent banks and mortgage companies. Unlike the $20 billion giants, the medium-sized regional banks are small enough to avoid antitrust litigation, yet big enough to provide sound management and a wide array of services for people who want to borrow, save or invest money...