Word: acumen
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...online fan vote from a pool of Winter Games standouts to appear in the upcoming sixth season of the popular reality show, The Apprentice, debuting in January. The program, the brainchild of real estate mogul Donald Trump, pits two teams against each other in tasks testing their character, business acumen, and entrepreneurship, with the least apt candidate—in the eyes of The Donald—getting eliminated each week to the sound of his trademark “You’re fired!” catch phrase.“The results...
...component of the proposed OSC is an equal embodiment of futility. The UC (specifically, the CLC) has struggled in the past in providing airport shuttles during recess and cardboard boxes during move-out. To continue to leave services in the hands of a few inexperienced representatives with little business acumen is tantamount to reckless abandonment of student welfare. We continue to encourage the UC to look for ways to outsource these services to student groups designed to carry out such initiatives and subsidize them with grants as needed. Furthermore, even a cursory review of the OSC’s list...
Stone's fundraising acumen ultimately became the stuff of legend. Calkins later said that Stone "would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote connection to Harvard, and he would hop on the next plane there...
...anxiety for Rumsfeld to take on his sixth Administration job in six years. He has not yet shown the necessary breadth of intellect to handle an assignment as complex and demanding as running the nation's defenses. Even his admirers tend to describe him in terms of his political acumen and talent for infighting; only after they pause for breath do they add that he is also smart and able. TIME...
...positions to only eight years of teaching. Over the years, this rule has caused the departure of some top-quality talent—most recently Social Analysis 10 teaching fellow Bruce D. Watson and Preceptor in Mathematics John D. Boller. With a constant turnover of lecturers (and their teaching acumen), lecturers in charge of Courses in General Education would be little more than glorified head teaching fellows and would never have the time or incentive to fully invest themselves in the creation and improvement of a course. If Harvard College is to offer the best introductory courses in the world...