Word: acumen
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...leaner, not necessarily a talented scholar of constitutional law. Bush’s mistake was in failing to choose someone who fulfilled the first attribute while also nominating someone of unknown judicial expertise. Harriet Miers might have still been confirmed had she consistently demonstrated a high level of constitutional acumen. This was how, despite a relatively thin paper trail and his refusal to state explicitly his positions on certain constitutional issues, former deputy Solicitor General John G. Roberts survived his nomination process to become Chief Justice. On the contrary, many of the senators that spoke with Miers were less than...
...Denver 14, Favre stiff-armed onrushing All-Pro defensive tackle Michael Dean Perry, scanned the field for a receiver, made eye contact with Antonio Freeman, then drilled the ball between two safeties for the TD that put the Broncos away. In one play, he demonstrated strength, poise, acumen and a great arm. (See pictures of the Arizona Cardinals...
...Katrina demanded far more than business acumen-more than any mayor could be expected to rise to, say Nagin's defenders. He is credited with ordering a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans before the storm hit, but has made several missteps as well, including a failure to get enough buses to people stranded in flooded neighborhoods, his baffling four-day disappearance during the second week of the crisis when he went to Dallas to rent a house for his family and his overwrought estimate that the city's death toll could be 10,000 instead of the likely finally tally...
...hands once a week,” abruptly turning and acridly muttering about “Sanitation: our enemy number one,” and “antibiotic resistance.” Perplexing moments like this one strop the razor of the unengaged summer mind to the acumen of the average I-banker...
...telling the salesclerk, "We can bargain in Russian." He wound up with 10% off, leading some observers to note wryly that the hard-line U.S. negotiator had settled for less than many White House aides, who successfully haggled for as much as 20%. Some shrewd Icelanders showed their capitalistic acumen in another realm. Many of them rented their homes to news organizations desperate for accommodations. Arni Arnason, marketing director for Iceland Waters, his wife and two children moved out of their apartment a block from the press center and into his sister-in-law's home. "The women...