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Reformers in Beijing argue that most farmers are far cannier than officials suspect.
ECONOMIST: Urbanisation
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But perhaps even cannier than hiring a shill to look like someone influential is employing a shill to sound like someone influential.
FORBES: Social Hygiene, from Myspace to Morgan Freeman
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The cannier despots know that whispers of dissent among the few can turn into howls of anger among the many in a Tunisian trice.
ECONOMIST: Tunisia and the Arab world
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Since then, the Foreign Office in particular has worried that staying out of integrationist projects is a cannier tactic than it is a strategy.
ECONOMIST: Britain and Europe: No laughing matter | The
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The word at a do-gooders' shindig held in April, the Global Philanthropy Forum, was that big private donors will want cannier use of their money.
ECONOMIST: Philanthropy
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Mr Hutton is a cannier, less flamboyant operator than Mr Milburn.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
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The plan's backers hope that fresh funds and cannier investment will give the Tokyo stockmarket a lift, by putting pressure on companies to improve shareholder value.
ECONOMIST: A call to set up a sovereign-wealth fund
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Its chief innovation is suggesting that Scotland raise more of the money it spends, in the hope that fiscal responsibility might make its politicians cannier with taxpayers' cash.
ECONOMIST: Devolution finances
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They played the cannier game in conditions that were always likely to deny us all a proper climax, and England were a good 30 runs away from setting a seriously competitive target.
BBC: Jonathan Agnew column
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In short, Mr Prodi, often portrayed as a crumpled-looking professor more at home teaching economics in his native Bologna than playing politics in Rome, has been a good deal tougher and cannier than he looked.
ECONOMIST: Romano Prodi, Italy��s would-be record-breaker
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Institutions, presumably, will be rather cannier.
ECONOMIST: Hedge funds
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The farmers themselves were cannier.
ECONOMIST: A generous budget, but not a prudent one