Word: acumen
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With his remarkable acumen for foreign policy, President Bush has responded well to the Gulf events. On Saturday, he rewarded Israel by sending American military personel to Israel with the Patriot surface-to-missile defense system. But even the Patriot has not alleviated the danger that Iraqi missiles pose for Israel...
...just a year ago six activist Jesuit educators in El Salvador, together with two female helpers, were brutally assassinated. The Jesuit Refugee Service labors with less attention in 75 camps that harbor 1.5 million people. There are also numerous unheralded individual heroes, like Thomas Fitzpatrick, a missionary whose financial acumen helped get food and medicine to the right places during Ethiopia's drought, thereby saving thousands of lives...
Though they have yet to match Gandhi's political acumen, Aquino, Chamorro and Bhutto share with the late Indian Prime Minister the same aristocratic sense of destiny. No other politicians -- certainly no men -- were capable of leading their countries at the time of their ascendancy. Aquino and Chamorro united quarrelsome opposition groups. Only Bhutto had the charisma to overcome the puritanical appeal of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's Islamic regime. But winning was the easy part. Ruling has proved problematic...
Many correspondents painted a benign picture of the financial wizard whose acumen, and sometimes shady practices, powered the 1980s takeover wars. While Milken earned more than $1 billion as the guru of the now defunct Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, friends argued that accumulating vast wealth was never his main goal. Wrote CBS president Laurence Tisch, who said he has known Milken for almost 20 years: "I have rarely dealt with a more dedicated and faithful professional or one more sensitive to the needs and goals of his clients or more mindful of the needs of society at large...
Helms is on the losing side of most issues, and little legislation of his own gets passed, but no one could accuse him of a lack of raw populist acumen. His National Congressional Club remains one of the richest political-action committees in Washington, a direct-mail operation that pulled in $1.4 million in 1989. The strength of its mailing list, combined with those of right-wing religious groups like Donald Wildmon's American Family Association and Pat Robertson's 700 Club, has kept the bombardment of the NEA going strong...