Word: shrewdness
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...country's $NZ150 billion economy. Its slide predates the global financial meltdown, with Treasury announcing back on Aug. 5 that the country was in recession. It was around this time that inflation hit an 18-year high and petrol passed the $NZ2-a-litre barrier. Like all shrewd incumbents, Clark has tried to turn bad news to her advantage: "I have the experience, the judgment and the skill set which can carry our country through what is the worst international financial crisis for more than 70 years," she said in a televised debate with Key on Oct. 14. But many...
...without bringing with it the bondage of sexual liberation.”John P. Huchra, a professor in the astronomy department, said that while he donated to McCain in the primaries, he has dropped his support since Palin joined the campaign.“It would have been a shrewd move if she hadn’t come out with all the inanities,” said Huchra, who recently donated to the Obama campaign. “The more we learn, the more we think she’s not competent. The key question for me becomes whether...
...Republican has been as moody as Hamlet, with shifting policy proposals, fickle themes and muddled attacks. Since McCain has never been a party-establishment favorite, it's surprising how little carping and ship-jumping there has been in the wake of the Republicans' abrupt poll slide. But as giddy, shrewd Democrats sing all for one and one for all, GOP second-guessing and mutiny look inevitable...
Williams is too sophisticated to song-write her own bio, but she's also too shrewd to ignore it, and her engagement to manager Tom Overby (who co-produced Little Honey) seems to have inspired a challenge: say something new about love and happiness. Lyric-sheet readers may wonder if she's up to it. Her usual evocations and minimalist stanzas are replaced by lines like "You're drinking in a bar in Amsterdam/ I'm thinking baby far out, be my man," proof that love and goofiness are but a beer apart...
...Partnership first finds Bavarian immigrant Marcus Goldman in 1869, reselling commercial paper in New York City's Jewish community. Over the next 35 years, the enterprise grows in small steps, thanks to the boss's shrewd, conservative moves and the help of his broad-thinking son-in-law Samuel Sachs...