Thanks to the largesse displayed by Stan Van Gundy on middling free agents, the Pistons had very little space with which to operate in free agency last summer, and just one second-round pick which Stefanski shrewdly turned into Bruce Brown, who started at the two-guard much of this season, and Khyri Thomas.
So the chancellor shrewdly picked Rita Süssmuth, a C.D.U.
But they have picked their scapegoats shrewdly: 74% of Russians and 98% of Nigerians disapprove of homosexuality.
"They shrewdly picked the one person in Georgia that gives them any chance of taking the seat back from Republicans," said Chuck Clay, the state Republican chairman.
They find other roots elsewhere, like "One Silver Dollar," a song they shrewdly picked up from "River of No Return," a Marilyn Monroe western that Ms. Mosshart pronounced "her worst movie".
So in the end, of course, it was The Artist's night, and it will trigger an avalanche of comment about the artistry of Harvey Weinstein, who shrewdly picked up this film after its debut at Cannes.
The book, which draws on the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor and for a time languished on a literary agency's slush pile, eventually became the subject of a bidding war last year before being picked up - shrewdly, as it turns out - by Bloomsbury.
Inspector Thanet is the very model of the paternalistic English detective, offering comfort to the relatives of a woman who was pushed down a well to her death, while shrewdly picking apart every detail of their alibis until he lays bare every dirty little secret in this affluent, complacent household.
He shrewdly picked issues ― abortion, guns and Obamacare ― to appeal to the GOP base, earning standing ovations when he pledged his conservative orthodoxy on these matters.
In fact, some people have made money this year in the stock market people who shrewdly got out of the market early in 1970 and then picked up stocks in the pollution field, in the bank ing field or who invested in bonds and have since been able to show some capital gains.
