Word: shrewd
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...Bruins, unlike the Harvard five, have been surging recently. Behind the shrewd leadership of Jerry Alaimo, one of the finest coaches in the Ivy League, the Bruins have begun to play like a team that expects to be going places in the next couple of years...
...Nyro and others who in next three years doubled Columbia's share of record market to 22%. Rock moved from 15% of firm's volume to more than 50%. Despite lack of musical training and personal taste that ran to folk singers and Johnny Mathis, he was shrewd enough to develop Santana; Chicago; Blood, Sweat and Tears; Sly and the Family Stone. Gives stars unprecedented artistic freedom, also unprecedented money. Some ventures viewed as risky: $4 million acquisition of Neil Diamond, $2 million-plus deal with Laura Nyro, who hasn't done a record in nearly...
...House members for his "absolute fairness" and approachability. Many have identified him as the best-liked man in the House." An expert in parliamentary procedures, O'Neill has earned the respect of Democrats and Republicans alike. As Rep. Thomas Rees (D-Calif.) claimed, he is "a damn bright, shrewd, very kind man; an excellent politician with a lot of guts, a lot more open to innovation and reform than other leaders." O'Neill, in part, wins such accolades by establishing close working relationships with vast numbers of representatives and making it a point to know their first names...
...original play will tell you, are the surprising deceptions which reveal themselves every half-hour or so. Andrew Wyke, an English mystery writer (Sir Laurence Olivier), is at his Gothic estate when his wife's lover, a hairdresser named Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), arrives. Wyke proposes a shrewd plot: he will help Tindle "steal" the Wyke jewels, in order to defraud the insurance company. But that, we find, is not quite Wyke's real goal. And, a still later clever-and-bold twist tells us what Wyke really wants is not what he really wants. And in that fashion...
...Shrewd as he is on most business dealings, even Carlsberg can come out second best in some real estate matters. Convinced that the $18,000 annual property-tax bill on his palatial marble-columned home in Bel Air was too steep, he recently paid a visit to the tax assessor to complain. After looking into the matter, the assessor agreed that there was an error; he raised Carlsberg's bill...