Word: shrewd
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...Philadelphia, nearly everybody agrees that the Inquirer has a knowing way with a dollar. Owned by the shrewd, multisided Triangle Publications (Seventeen, TV Guide, Morning Telegraph) of the Annenberg family, its morning paper (circ. 604,977) is the nation's fifth largest daily and its Sunday edition (circ. 1,108,209) is Philly's biggest, also ranks fifth in the land. But last week the Inquirer put the finishing touches on a financial deal that seemed entirely out of character: it was paying staffers bonuses to quit...
...most of all, Halleck is a fighter--a shrewd parliamentary tactician with little love of compromise. In his efforts to bring party members into line, he is more apt to use cold steamroller techniques than the genial coddling with which Martin was successful. This has already earned him the dislike of some Republicans, it is reported; and now that he is top man this feeling may become more widespread...
...Greek village that has grown rich and careful under the tolerant Turkish dominion. As the story begins, everybody in town crowds into the tiny church to hear the priest appoint the leading parts in a Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas is a well-known hell raiser and general bad lot. St. Peter is the village postman. St. John is the gentle, warmhearted son of the richest man in town. Christ is a shepherd, a stammering and shy man, pure and natural in character...
...Under shrewd control and held tightly to limits, development through inflation works. But if inflation gets out of hand the currency collapses. Development by debasement of the currency is a tempting game-but a perilous...
...American cardinals. He served as secretary of the Conclave that elected Pope John, looks like a successful banker-which is what, in effect, he is. As secretary of the Institute for Works of Religion, he guides the Vatican bank, whose holdings he is said to have considerably augmented through shrewd investment...