Word: acumen
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...actual game went according to plan--Harvard's plan. The battle between two Ivy giants was as much a contest of emotion as it was pure football acumen...
...democratic process. This is not a democratic process!” The stands these professors were taking were in direct violation of the principles they have advocated in writing for years. Not one principled person spoke up for the principle of representativeness or even for the acumen of the Harvard student body...
Such an significant reshaping of the University’s structure is likely to be resisted both by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the graduate schools; Summers will need to use all his political acumen to bring about the change that is necessary for integration...
...that political acumen was poorly represented on one front in Friday’s speech. Summers reaffirmed his intention to aggressively develop University land in Allston in what may turn out to be a multi-billion dollar expansion, citing the precedents set by the construction of Harvard Business School on a former swamp and the Kennedy School of Government on a former Red Line train yard. But though expansion is sorely needed, the issue is more complex than a matter of building on new and far-flung land; it will require careful planning and a respectful relationship with the Allston...
...when most analysts and experts said that wasn't a viable business are all achievements Thaksin can take credit for. But like most successful businessmen who are handed virtual monopolies, as Thaksin was with his most profitable enterprise, his mobile phone empire, he sometimes overstates the role his business acumen played in securing his windfall...