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.
Strine has astutely managed his career, from volunteering as a teenager for Carper's first congressional campaign to becoming a significant force in American corporate governance as a judge, but it is a career not without its tensions between jurisprudence and politics, business law and a wider world of ideas.
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".
What he sold, in fact, was work he believed in and caused us to believe in sold it cleverly and astutely as an entrepreneur managing the full suite of business practice areas.
If not managed astutely, the collateral damage to other industries and states could well be quantitatively more significant than the direct damages to California electricity consumers and distributors.
In fact, corporations have become highly skilled in managing public opinion - and one of their first steps was to consolidate the "support" for institutions of learning that Carson so astutely noted.
"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".
