Jim is an amazing combination of integrity, tenacity, energy, courage, curiosity, brains and shrewd judgment.
The swaps and shrewd accounting provided illusory gains for many carriers, even as the bandwidth business fell apart.
But the overarching task is to be fair, just, compassionate, ethical, and shrewd, all at the same time.
However, Pond was not British but a New England Yankee, noted for his fierce competitive spirit and shrewd trading abilities.
His account of Dayton, where he and the junkyard dogs negotiated for 20 days, is peppered with amusing anecdotes and shrewd insights.
It is also a case study of how entrepreneurial vigor and shrewd instincts can breathe new life into a forlorn asset that nobody wanted.
May, a one-time congressional candidate and one of seven registered lobbyists at ATA, sees the issue being won on a combination of substance and shrewd politicking.
With his wholesome image and shrewd business sense, Rogers made a fortune, becoming second only to Walt Disney in souvenir sales and licensing -- everything from cap pistols to lunch boxes.
Many viewed this as both a cynical and shrewd move by Huffington given that AOL would have surely preferred to pay using its shares rather than a large percentage of its cash.
Yet to also encounter familiar trademarks such as DuPont and IBM demonstrates that prudent discipline and shrewd management, along with more than a little luck, are proven guards against time and market forces.
Known as the 'Sage of Omaha' and famous for both his folksy style and shrewd investment decisions, Mr Buffett was panned by critics for missing out on the internet stock boom of 1999 and 2000.
The fourth kind of empire, suggests Mr Darwin, was a more informal one in places such as Argentina and Egypt where British influence was exercised through commerce, investment and shrewd diplomacy (occasionally of the gunboat kind).
What's clear, though, is that through her unabashed sartorial choices and shrewd business decisions, the native New Yorker has achieved a unique level of celebrity in the world of fashion bloggers for which many both love and resent her.
Fiat may have been tempting fate with its startling announcement Tuesday that it was taking a stake in Chrysler, less than two years after a previous trans-Atlantic partnership involving the American carmaker failed--still, the move looks both bold and shrewd, given the circumstances.
Now in order for this belief system to operate effectively, it has to continually position the journalist and his or her observations not as right where others are wrong, or virtuous where others are corrupt, or visionary where others are short-sghted, but as practical, hardheaded, unsentimental, and shrewd where others are didactic, ideological, and dreamy.
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The second thing, to note that he's a man who is political to his fingertips and a shrewd player of the Westminster and wider game.
But Shaq's playful personality masks a potent ambition and a shrewd knack for business.
Mr Simplot's success had the traditional ingredients: hard work, thrift, enterprise, readiness to take risks and a shrewd ability to assess an opportunity.
That hit and other shrewd moves have let the Disney Channel, a longtime also-ran in kid TV behind Viacom's Nickelodeon, mount a serious challenge.
Political to his fingertips and a shrewd player of the game.
He is both a savvy media operator, and a shrewd negotiator - two attributes his supporters say he is using to good effect in the BA dispute.
But like many journalists I always enjoyed talking to him, because he was extremely knowledgeable, decent and fair, and a shrewd observer of Britain's strange relationship with Europe.
That hit and other shrewd moves have let the Disney Channel, a longtime also-ran in kid TV behind Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people )'s Nickelodeon, mount a serious challenge.
If Obama wants to change the strategic game on Iran, Israel-Palestine, Syria, Cuba, Russia and other challenges, he will need partners who are perceived as tough, smart, shrewd and even skeptical of the deals he wants to do.
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The evolving Buffett is a shrewd and feisty macro player, easily merchant banker of last resort.
What if there was nothing wrong with not being shrewd and calculating in the workplace?
His blokeish exterior belies a shrewd and adaptable politician who is on the left of his party.
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The politically-shrewd and often critical bitcoin seeks independent validation like a jester in the court of monetary sovereigns.
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