Word: shrewdly
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EGYPT Criticism of Hosni Mubarak is still dangerous in Egypt: the one newspaper that dared publish an open attack on the country's leader was shut down a few years ago. But with the world around him changing, Mubarak is too shrewd a politician not to perceive the dangers in resisting the tide of reform. No one is sure exactly what moved the autocratic Mubarak to permit multiparty presidential elections instead of the rubber-stamp referendums that have given him four six-year terms in office. But after the government arrested liberal party head Ayman Nour last month on charges...
...even with such a heavy subject matter, Watson, known for his shrewd humor, tried to lighten the mood...
...catalog, where he offers purring reflections on style, plugs his running shoes and tells us that fashion and automobiles make a perfect fit. In fact, the fashion show he just sent down the New York City catwalks was inspired by his cars. The marketing plans of hungry museums and shrewd designers seem to make a pretty good...
...appeared before the Maidan crowd on New Year's Eve, he said triumphantly: "We have been independent for 14 years, but we have not been free. Today we are independent and free." Throughout the bitter, high-stakes months of Ukraine's presidential battle, Yushchenko has been buoyed by such shrewd use of street power - it has helped him emerge as a tough, decisive leader and a symbol of change. But now he has to play a subtler game if he is to make good on his promise to transform Ukraine from an outpost of Vladimir Putin's empire into...
...Writing as means, not as end! The page as dressing room, not debutante ball! The idea of that process as an end product of its own is valid but remains a fantasy. Nevertheless, I want readers to see my work the way I think about the topics: ruminative, sensitive, shrewd. Specific, but with broad implications. Pointed yet flexible; irreverent yet respectful; lucid yet informal...