Everyone rushes into them, so the price rises sharply and investors pat themselves on the back for their shrewdness.

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While the world's best adventure racers tend to be in outstanding physical shape, it's their guile and shrewdness that win the race.

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Emerging unscathed was testimony to Mr Amato's shrewdness, intelligence and luck.

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Wherever it goes, the faith retains a Middle Western flavour, with its mixture of social conservatism, philanthropy, worldly shrewdness and devotion to a core set of beliefs.

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It was intended to grow and be handed down from one generation to the next, largely protected from the taxman through the shrewdness of family strategists--and generous grandfather clauses that protect assets accumulating in offshore accounts set up years ago.

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His vision was tempered by shrewdness.

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Evans's shrewdness and determination, along with his willingness to spend freely, secured him the site against competition from French, Italian and American archaeologists, in a scramble among the Great Powers for a treasure trove to rival Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy and Mycenae on the mainland.

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As further evidence of Ergen's shrewdness, Merrill Lynch's Jayant notes that Ergen got away without having to adhere to the breakup clause that required him to buy Hughes' 81% stake in satellite wholesaler PanAmSat (nasdaq: SPOT - news - people ), in the event the deal didn't go through.

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