He astutely managed the company's investments for 40 years from 1938 to 1978.
In the new coalition, Law was leader of the House of Commons, a member of the war cabinet, and chancellor of the Exchequer, in which capacity he astutely managed war-loan and war-bond programs.
Some of that has come from experts in legal circles who believe that the Supreme Court may not be ready to take on the question of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage — which the Justices astutely managed to avoid addressing head on in last summer's twin rulings on DOMA and Proposition 8, California's gay-marriage ban.
And the more that firms embracing it are seen to be successful through astutely managing risks and recognising opportunities the more enlightened their leaders will be perceived to be.
"The Congress doesn't have anyone else of his caliber to handle the regional and caste divides that Reddy was so astutely managing".
"I now conclude that however astutely the crisis may have been managed," former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said in Havana last week, "luck also played a significant role in the avoidance of nuclear war by a hair's breadth".
It seems more likely that "Chaos" was slowly brewed into existence as a result of the success of "Burn Notice," on USA, the sunny spy series set in Miami that has always managed to incorporate its dark passages astutely.
His diocese, the largest in the Episcopal Church, is diverse, with giant urban churches and tiny rural ones, liberal mainline congregations and conservative evangelical ones, and Lee has managed to hold them all together by astutely finding the midpoint on any controversial issue and luring both sides toward it.
The New York Times Janet Maslinn summed up his performance astutely, writing: "Mr Jagger, managing to combine a sneer and a monotone, and revealing only the occasional flash of humor, is fun to watch but lucky to have other employment".
Gordon Chisholm's astutely-managed First Division side had to lead four times, through Steve Tosh, Paul Burns, Sean O'Connor and the outstanding substitute, John Stewart, before finally ousting Aberdeen, who had come back on three occasions with two goals from Andrew Considine and one by Barry Nicholson.
The biggest challenge facing the new leaders is to manage the democratic transition astutely; to maintain a high degree of transparency; and to establish a political contract agreed upon by society's different segments and trends.
