Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Events in Nicaragua and Afghanistan are not conciliatory gestures, but shrewd political manuveurs. It is estimated that the invincible Red Army is incurring casualties in Afghanistan as high as those we did in Vietnam, while Nicaragua has become an enormous military and economic drain on the rickety Soviet economy. Gorbachev wants out in both places, and he needs American help to ensure that rebels will not topple his puppet governments when he leaves. By agreeing to stop funding the contras and mujahadeen in exchange for vague promises of more arms agreements, the Unites States would give legitimacy to the Marxist...
...discourages Sherman from reporting the incident to the police. Unfortunately, the mother of the badly injured boy is a friend of the Rev. Reginald Bacon's, whose specialty is political pressure and misappropriating social-service funds for his private use, an activity he justifies as "steam control." Bacon is shrewd, cunning, outrageous and, like the other shrewd, cunning, outrageous characters in Bonfire, not necessarily bigger than life...
...financial markets are certainly important. So is consulting. But the capital and the shrewd advice are meant for somebody, and those people weren't around in great numbers...
...eminent Renaissance woman of the century, a pioneer who had shown once and for all that "self-made woman" need not be a contradiction in terms. If greatness, as she once said to Churchill, means "to see, to say, to serve," some measure of it surely belonged to so shrewd an observer, so pungent a speaker and so versatile a public servant...
...most eager to break that threesome is Nakasone, who covets the role of kingmaker in order to maintain clout once he leaves office. Ever the shrewd politician, he has not publicly declared his choice. Though only a so-so golfer, Nakasone has proved himself a pro at playing the intricate game of politics...