Shrewder yet, Cowell accepted on condition that he could revisit his contract again.
Part of the explanation seems to be that Koch has been shrewder than Georgia-Pacific's managers about trends in the pulp-and-paper business.
As an economic, not a political, tsar, Mr Takenaka will have to be a lot shrewder than he has been so far.
His own party questions Mr MacKay's ability to generate excitement, and few doubt that Mr Bush will be a tougher and shrewder candidate.
Every few months the algorithm writers in Cambridge inject better software into the global network to make it shrewder at picking routes for Internet traffic.
Another new group led by a former chairman of JPMorgan Chase has nudged the church to become more open about its finances and shrewder in its investments.
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He may have inherited his passion for the races from his father, but over the years he's worked hard to turn himself into a much shrewder and more successful horseman.
Ichoose of Dallas and other shops are developing ever-shrewder software that lets online merchants scan rival sites, adjust prices on the fly and steal customers, all without leaving a clue.
His shrewder friends recognised strategy in Chagall's innocence.
And even some reformists believe that, while anyone would be better than the incumbent president, it may be shrewder to back a conservative who might fulfil his promises rather than a reformist who very well might not.
Whether they favoured the pacifist approach of Ibrahim Rugova, their unofficial president, or reckoned that only force would drive the Serbs away, the shrewder leaders of the Kosovar community calculated that the brutishness of Slobodan Milosevic was playing into their hands.
The peasants, who had a shrewder idea of how Mother Russia functioned, thought it more likely that this evidence of progress, if that was the correct name for it, was somehow related to the purchase, several months earlier, of the late and little lamented Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria's sprawling wooden dacha by a man identified only as the Oligarkh.
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