The trouble is, as well as being clever and provocative, Mr Gray is often confused, always given to hyperbole and is occasionally plain crass.
If you subscribe to this line of thinking, which many now do, then you must conclude that the Fed is being clever, even responsible.
Predicting, interpreting and being clever does not seem to work.
But Jeff Bezos and his team are being more clever than that.
In the space of a few years in the 1990s, he went from being a clever mathematician to a powerful business tycoon and then a shadowy Kremlin power-broker and Russian media magnate.
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Considering that the entire futuristic Korean story is performed by its characters in plain English, and that we have no reason to believe that these later post-apocalyptic humans would even incorporate English into their own language, it feels less like a world-building method, and more like the writers being unnecessarily clever.
It says Mr Stancik has been accused of being "a clever manipulator of the news media, more interested in sex crimes and sexy headlines than in the fundamental work of education".
On Mar. 13, at a seminar before a senate antigraft committee, Jaruvan Maintaka, Thailand's formidable anticorruption auditor general, accused Thaksin and his colleagues of being extremely skillful and clever in their corruption schemes.
Mr Kaiser has been clever as well as lucky in being able to publicise the Royal Opera House's more positive efforts.
He has the ruthless, delusional fanaticism of a clever man who is frightened of being toppled and perhaps put on trial for his copious human-rights abuses.
It matters that there is a consistent market buzz about some inconsistent issues, one of them being what is turning out to be a not so clever antenna design implementation.
The perhaps predictable result is that the bankers lived up to the low expectations of their common sense, and devised ever more clever ways to raid the biscuit tin without being seen.
Maybe -- if we're being picky -- this is all too self-consciously clever to be truly scary on the visceral, soul-gnawing level of the most unforgettable horror films.
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Trying to make the Street as close to normal as possible could negate the point of being live and so could be a mistake but it could also be clever.
To be so clever and have her own ideas and never put a foot wrong being the first black First Lady and to have done it so magnificently.
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Pfizer and Bristol were already positioning Eliquis as being the option for patients who refuse to take warfarin, having run a clever study that compared the drug to aspirin.
One thing that still bugs me, after a month on UP, is that the data being gathered is just as useful or more useful to the company that was clever enough to fasten all these bracelets on all of us.
Clever new technologies to turn it into fertiliser or chemicals or fuel are being developed all the time.
Amazon Mechanical Turk used to be a popular one, but now a number of independent sites are around, such as Death by CAPTCHA. Clever hacks have even been developed for audio CAPTCHAs that merely deconstruct waveform shapes to identify what numbers are being spoken.
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