Word: shrewdly
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...response from Rome may have left Bishop Gregory in an awkward position, but he chose on Friday to take a positive view. "He's not interpreting this as a set-back," Appleby said of Gregory. "He's shrewd to set the tone that we are moving forward; that this is a step in the right direction toward refining, clarifying and formally implementing the Dallas charter." But it remains to be seen whether that's how Rome understands the next step...
President Bush's plan to attack Iraq is a shrewd political maneuver designed to change the target of the war on terrorism from the cunning, elusive and charismatic bin Laden to the oppressive, lackluster and immobile Saddam. This new focus provides a cover for our failure to catch the real terrorist leaders. JOEL RETT Olympia, Wash...
Knowing how much his audience wanted to see him with the E Street Band again, shrewd businessman Springsteen raised ticket prices from about $30 for his mid-'90s solo tour to $67.50 for the high-profile E Street reunion tour of 1999-2000. Now he has again raised ticket prices, this time to $75. There's irony in a "populist" performer squeezing his audience for larger and larger amounts of cash for the privilege of hearing him sing about how tough it is in a cruel world. KYLE MIZE Brownwood, Texas...
...which they may be eager to put in their past. Milosevic has chosen to act as his own attorney, although he claims neither to recognize nor respect the Tribunal’s authority. Based on videotapes of the trial I’ve seen, he’s a shrewd and aggressive cross-examiner of those on the stand against him. His questioning of those who were hurt by his policies is especially painful for victims...
...Hong Kong, a city of shrewd dealmakers, is left looking Dumbo for failing to get a noncompete clause in writing?which the Paris and Tokyo Disneylands had both secured. Still, Michael Chin, senior director of PricewaterhouseCoopers's North Asia leisure industry consulting group, believes China's huge population "is big enough to support both parks easily." It's not such a small world, after...