Lines were long, tickets were next to worthless, and shrewd locals sold water for four dollars a bottle.
LIKE millions of homeowners, shrewd state and local governments are looking to refinance.
As somebody who has backpacked around much of the world, I don't entirely approve — but it is shrewd from the local country's point of view.
With a few misfires, he emerged from the water crisis, having established himself as a familiar face for the television cameras and a shrewd user of local media.
Jim and Estelle got a shrewd idea of local music tastes by monitoring record sales to the black teenagers – among them future Stax stalwarts Isaac Hayes and David Porter – who rifled through the record racks, and cut their own cloth accordingly.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Guggenheim director Thomas Krens, and the plans for a new Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum in lower Manhattan... Writer describes the proposed titantium-clad museum, which is similar to Gehry's design for the Bilbao Guggenheim... Krens commissioned the Bilbao and made [it] possible through shrewd negotiations with local politicians.
This is a Runyonesque, Lock Stock… piece of violent mockney in which three, possibly four, teams of crooks are out to seize a million quid when London bagman Jimmy the Gent (Peter Wight) comes to a lurid Southend to collect protection money from Shrewd Eddie, the local Mr Big (Paul Freeman).
What makes it worthwhile are Mr. Mitgang's shrewd insights into local politics -- the implications of each player's chess move for future elections -- and the deft way he sets up the protagonists of his story and orchestrates them cunningly for the final showdown.
Go local, shrewd investors.
Thanks to a bold and shrewd fightback by the local community, Friern Barnet Library in north London - the lovely little branch where my reading life began in earnest - has been saved from closure.
