Colorful eccentricities aside, Mr. Kelley is also a shrewd businessman who avoids the limelight.

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Any perception of a tweed-clad member of the landed gentry more concerned with pheasant stocks, Purdey shotguns and regenerative timber stocks hides a shrewd, calculating businessman, unafraid to show the ruthlessness of a mako shark in making unpopular decisions.

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Perhaps Mr Murdoch will make a mess of the Wall Street Journal by undermining its editorial independence though surely he is too shrewd a businessman to mess with so valuable a brand.

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While being a shrewd and innovative businessman, "Jim Henson created indelible, memorable characters that live with us throughout a variety of media, " said Carl Goodman, executive director of the Museum of the Moving Image.

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Judge Philip Hughes had listened to prosecution and defence submissions at Llandudno last week, and said that while the defendant was unable to read, he had no doubt that he had overcome what disadvantage he had to become a shrewd and successful businessman.

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