In The Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball, by Leonard Koppett (Sports Illustrated/Total Sports, $17), a sportswriter answers questions astute fans might bring up, analyzing the game with a nearly scientific attention to detail.
An astute Australian gymnast had the answer: the vault had been set too low, by 1.9 inches, when Khorkina had performed.
In an astute move, Mr Obama waited for his last answer to raise his opponents' secretly-recorded comments to donors in May conflating the 47% of the country that pays no federal income tax with Mr Obama's core vote.
Many of these answers will be obtained by astute observation of patients treated on a daily basis 36, whereas others will come from the results of ongoing and planned postmarketing clinical trials aimed at improving our understanding of the science associated with ipilimumab's novel mechanism of action.
Carlyn Meyer I hate to give you a short answer to such a long and astute question, but the truth is I really don't know.
We have seen humanoid robots like Asimo learn to walk and cut apples and robots that appear to be able to think or at least answer any human question in an astute, conversational manner.
You members of the press are hammering them for questions, trying to catch them, whether or not they are astute enough to listen to the questions and answer it correctly.
He gave a well thought-out answer on Social Security reform, a politically astute (though morally bankrupt) answer on illegal immigrants — "return home, apply, get in line with everybody else" — and an utterly brazen but quite effective one on Super PACs, in which he lamented not having control over negative ads put out in his name.
Did he tell the Foreign Minister that there is no question of Spain being allowed to enter the European Community so long as the restrictions on the border continue against Gibraltarians and British citizens?" Telling McQuarrie that he was "rightly, continuously astute on this matter", Howe went on to make an emollient answer – a wise response whenever McQuarrie was on the warpath.
If someone listed Clemens, Pettitte, Mussina, Wells and Mays and asked an honest, astute fan which pitcher the Angels would want to face this October, the answer would have been Mays.
