Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little experience of statecraft, and is noted, in a Western diplomat's words, for "thinking with her heart." Her foes predicted disaster in 1959 when she was elected president of the flabby, faction-torn Congress Party. But in her whirlwind year on the job, Indira showed considerable political acumen...
Much business give and take goes into the manner in which directors are picked. A bank almost certainly seeks executives of several large corporations, expecting to help handle their companies' accounts. Corporations, on the other hand, frequently seek out bankers not only for their business acumen but for the support they could give should the company encounter financial need...
...method in Humanities is extremely appealing. But to most of those involved with the humanities, it is as important that a student should have read some of the great books and ideas of Western civilization as that he should be able to read them with a particular sort of acumen...
That night R. A. Butler faced his decision. He and his tearful wife Mollie returned to their suite at the ornate, Edwardian St. Ermin's Hotel. Some time between a Scotch nightcap and dawn, Politician Butler surveyed the situation with all his political acumen and concluded that he simply did not have sufficient support inside the party to carry through the rebellion. He also knew, as he told friends later, that either decision, to fight on or to quit, would be criticized, but he decided to give up rather than seriously damage the Tory Party...
These excuses did not appear to fool the Kennedy policy-makers, who seem to have developed sufficient acumen in Latin American affairs to recognize cynical bids for U.S. aid. But recognizing the cynicism of the military juntas is only a precondition to doing something about them. Although President Kennedy deplored the army takeovers at his press conference Wednesday, he did not say whether the United States had determined to help the people of the Dominican Republic bring these unpopular rulers down...