It requires astute political thinking and management.
At this point, the astute reader is probably thinking this sounds like a cobbler with a funny name.
In 2001, when Joseph Simone, the president of the family-owned Simone Development Companies in New Rochelle, N.Y., bid $3.7 million at a state auction for a weedy 18.5-acre site in the Bronx, home to an abandoned residential treatment center, skeptics wondered what such a normally astute businessman could possibly be thinking.
But one of the elements setting "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P". apart is Waldman's gender, and praise is due for the astute way she manages the thinking process of someone who is not built exactly like her.
It's been more than a decade since then ― and six years since Democrats had the majority ― but Pelosi's financial stranglehold over the caucus has indebted many members to her, and her reputation as an astute tactician has some Democrats thinking they're better off with an experienced hand trying to negotiate with a Republican House, Senate and White House.
In Rodgers, Liverpool possess one of the most astute, forward-thinking coaches in the game.
Grounds said Brady would not act in prison without thinking through the consequences: "He is a very astute observer, strategist, calculator.
The rapid globalization of the world economy has increased the need for an astute understanding of cultural differences in perceptions, values, and ways of thinking about new food technologies.
However, this way of thinking ignores not only Kennedy's history in rulings, but also his astute dedication to both the rule of law and his position on the court.
I don't bring up Wolfe's work to compare myself to him — that would be laughable — but because an astute reader named John G. Moore, Jr. left me a comment in that piece that got me thinking we are in fact disrupting lots of stuff, but mostly the wrong variety.
Why, you rage, was I persuaded into thinking that this two-cylinder Mills & Boon romance was in fact a piece of astute and meaningful human description?
