Bringing further violence to a long-traumatized region infested by corrupt and destructive autocrats will not be astute policy, valiant resolve or strong leadership.
But he will also forever be astute and witty, a "smart kid who doesn't try".
Investors in technology will need to be astute stock pickers this year, looking for proven companies that have not run up, rather than loading up on the most beaten-down companies, he said.
"Hopefully this new crop of regulators will be more astute than those who ignored a 15-page detailed analysis of the Madoff fraud that was handed to them on a platter years before his unmasking".
While there will be opportunities for astute investors, Mr. El-Erian says that in addition to a "new normal" of slow economic growth and high unemployment, we must now also grapple with a weakening of the financial system's core.
Many of these answers will be obtained by astute observation of patients treated on a daily basis 36, whereas others will come from the results of ongoing and planned postmarketing clinical trials aimed at improving our understanding of the science associated with ipilimumab's novel mechanism of action.
He will be remembered for his astute mind, compassion, leadership in civic, professional and charitable groups, and his deep love for his family.
The historically astute will be reminded by this pairing of the Terror that was waged in Reason's name at the Republic's founding.
Through 2016, the astute entrepreneur will be earning hard cash for his home town again in the year-long Bosch 500 programme.
Knowing Sorkin, it will be one with plot development, astute characterization, a whole lot of talking, and probably just a smidgen of universal truth.
