I would like to tell you that this was a product of our canny negotiating skills, but I can't.
At every stop he's been praised more for his brilliant marketing (children's tickets to Canadiens games are an NHL-low C$10) than his canny management skills.
The story of London Road fire station is just the latest to prove it: where the free market fails, with determination, persistence and canny campaigning skills, ordinary people can and will succeed.
As Mr. Mondale's surprise choice, Ms. Ferraro rocketed to national prominence, propelled by fervid feminist support, a spirited and sometimes saucy personality, canny political skills and the calculation by Democratic strategists that Reagan might be vulnerable on issues thought to be more important to women.
But it was how he used that record tenure that made him a pillar of Capitol Hill — fighting, often with florid words, for the primacy of the legislative branch of government and building, always with canny political skills, a modern West Virginia with vast amounts of federal money.
Chris showed some canny entrepreneurial skills in securing his two iPads.
This, sadly, deprives us of what would have been one of the great fantasy matches of the tennis history books, pitting hard-charging German aggression against canny Scottish defensive skills.
He put everything into it: not just the compositional skill and canny dramatic instincts that came from a lifetime of writing music for the theater but also his deep love and knowledge of the Jewish liturgical traditions that were so firmly rooted in the fabric of his style.
Given that it's prestocked with radio-friendly alt-rock staples and British hits (he's always had more traction there), it's also a canny advertisement for his skills behind a mixing board.
