Word: shrewdly
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Except that, unlike Octavio and Valeria, El Chivo is shrewd enough to recognize something of himself in the killer dog, and to begin to make peace with his haunted past. It may be too late for any full-scale reconciliations, but his is the only hopeful story Inarritu tells, the one that catches this aspect of his belief: "We lose our innocence, our looks, our loves, finally life itself. We are what we lose...
...father loved him, his mom didn't. He loved his kid, she deserted him. What's this got to do with the price of coke? In truth, all George deserves is the grudging respect one might give to any captain of industry who, with guts and a shrewd sense of an expanding market, made a bundle selling people something they didn't need. That's not quite enough for a wannabe-great movie...
...past five years, with roles in both Kiss the Girls and Seven. Seven, on the other hand, actually had what it takes to be a gutsy, successful movie; good acting and good direction, not to mention an interesting premise. Although Freeman is undeniably irreproachable as the brooding, shrewd criminologist, Hollywood can do with a little variety. Let us just hope he does not feel the need to reprise any of these I-am-an-intelligent-policeman roles in the near future, especially roles that require him to run around answering cell phones in garbage cans at some hack crook...
DoCoMo's phenomenal success came in large part because of Enoki's shrewd strategy: make it easy to use, easy to pay for and loaded with gimmicky content to dazzle and entertain Web novices. "The Internet scared Japanese people," says Yukiko Takahashi, a manager at Bandai Networks, a subsidiary of the toy company that gave the world the Tamagotchi virtual pet and created rudimentary games that have been big hits on i-mode. "It made people think about connecting a PC, using a keyboard, modems, ISDN lines, stuff they didn't understand and stuff that cost too much. The smartest...
...billion it was the largest single foreign investment in India ever?and an important litmus test for the country. Did the backward giant want to plug its gaping infrastructure gaps? The Maharashtra State Electricity Board agreed to buy all the power produced by Dabhol, and the pricing formula was shrewd: in the event of oil price increases or devaluation of the Indian rupee, the Electricity Board pays more. Well, oil has gone up and the rupee has gone down since Dabhol's 740 megawatt plant went operational two years ago?and that's why consumers like Treasurer have such high...