Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While it's certainly true that women are not being paid the same wages as men or accorded the same business acumen, it is also true that no man likes a "smartass broad." Women were meant to be lovers, not fighters...
...Technology, reflecting last week on M.I.T.'s success in coping with the recent demonstrations against the institute's deep involvement in Pentagon-backed defense research (TIME, Nov. 14). The rainy New England weather helped to dampen the militants. But it was Johnson's own administrative acumen that defused what could have been the first major campus explosion of the new academic year...
Arafat breathed fiery defiance. "Arab revolutionaries have a right to fight anywhere," he said. He insisted that "American imperialism is behind all actions hostile to the Arab nation." Playing on the pride of the Lebanese in their business acumen, he warned that unless Israel is wiped out, "it is bound to be proved that Israelis are better businessmen than Lebanese...
Nearing the climax of his indictment, Nader said that the universities' negligence was "an extremely serious failure when stacked up against the amount of intellectual acumen and resources available." As a consequence of this abdication, corporate America has been able to mount an institutionalized assault on everything of value in American society: the free choice marketplace is a hoax: the Great Lakes verge on irreversible pollution; the social system is "productive but imbalanced...
During last year's campaign, Finch was almost constantly at Nixon's side, providing counsel on every key decision. The President's admiration for Finch's political acumen is almost unbounded, and he sometimes refers to him as a "political poet...