The canny politician knows that to achieve one thing he often has to say quite another.
The canny smaller brother of Scotland's two giant banking delinquents registered its first full-year loss.
As deputy, he built a reputation as a canny strategist, plotting the DUP's election campaigns.
Since its 2003 founding, Skype has had a canny way of grabbing an outsize amount of attention.
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Mr Diller has made some canny bets: Hotels.com, Match.com, Expedia and Ticketmaster each claims to be profitable.
So what are the best opportunities for the canny investor keen to cash in on alternative energy?
With Samuel L. Jackson as a canny rare-instrument specialist who has his own plans for the fiddle.
Bush and his people talk about currents too powerful for any one politician, however canny, to shape.
Canny timing can make stock options seem more like a lottery than a true reward for performance.
Does the canny Mr Mukherjee hope to achieve more liberal progress than he has so far promised?
Now Google is well known to be extremely canny in its relationship to the corporate income tax.
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Still, most Iraqis, after decades of repression and censorship, are pretty canny about gathering and interpreting information.
Shane Bond and Daniel Vettori are world-class bowlers: Bond is a phenomenal competitor and Vettori a canny operator.
Canny tour operators at these destinations have been catering to the market by providing Mandarin-speaking guides and brochures.
By 1983, a canny federal prosecutor named Rudolph Giuliani indicted them on dozens of charges, including tax evasion.
Likewise, it is hard to see Gucci's sudden art awareness as more than yet another canny marketing move.
The cool Mr Aznar has a canny instinct for what it takes to keep a country on course.
He seems very relaxed - as someone says, more like a canny village priest than a glib politician.
But Uttar Pradesh's canny voters can throw up surprises which can upset the best-made plans of every political party.
He will need this canny doggedness in his new dealings with the centre.
He has a canny record of detecting speculative bubbles earlier than others do.
Soon after, he earned his cred as a canny salesman as senior vice president at the Home Shopping Network.
Canny says this storm season has been a huge setback for farmers here.
More recently, these collectors have realised that they have also been canny investors.
The real debate within the GOP right now is whether battles might not be better won with canny flanking maneuvers.
Some had a worse worry: that the canny Mr Safra's sale of his beloved banks was a classic top-of-the-market signal.
Mr Johnson, once a canny trade-union leader, was minister for higher education two years ago when Parliament approved top-up fees.
Jaipal Reddy, a canny parliamentarian from the shrinking Janata Party, contends that Congress need not call new elections to govern successfully.
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But we can be sure Gen Petraeus will be too canny to let his hair down within the earshot of any journalist.
Eduardo Saverin is proving himself to be a canny and courageous investor.
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