Word: acumen
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...American auto industry is much sicker than that. It seems doubtful that the same marketing acumen that decided back in the '70s that big cars were here to stay will find intelligent ways to spend new investment money. Labor costs, moreover, are likely to remain cripplingly high. The United Auto Workers (UAW) should not have to take all of the blame for this, though: layer after layer of management has encrusted the companies, turning them into bureaucracies to rival the government in size and ineptitude. Without the looming threat of economic oblivion, those who must sacrifice to improve efficiency will...
...Nixon's latest attempt to explain away--and subsidize--his retirement years is not entirely without insight or interest. His paranoiac sliminess aside (a big aside). Nixon does evince some of the flashes of political acumen and pragmatic grasp of world affairs that surfaced from time to time during his shortened Administration. Thirty years of hobnobbing in the world's corridors of power have somewhat of a rubbing-off effect, as Nixon himself wouldn't hesitate to tell us: It sure beats some other forms of occupation, like acting for instance. But this is getting ahead of the game...
...idea of my father as a Thomas Jefferson thrilled us, though the only concrete detail we had on Namibia was a number--9500 miles from New York. Later, we gained enough political acumen to be fired with admiration and idealism over the client...
...backed off. He has also moved carefully in his rapprochement with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, with whom he would like to negotiate a no-war pact, and in his efforts to keep lines of communications open to the nettlesome Khomeini regime in Tehran. Zia will need all the political acumen he can muster if he is to negotiate successfully the narrow, obstacle-ridden path he has chosen...
...chorus whose energy gradually stops seeming misplaced. The ambitions of director Christopher Charron and lighting designer Alyssa Haywoode appear to have grown apace; there are some remarkable effects, including one that makes Isaacs on the cross look like a yellowed medieval painting. At this point, matters of musical acumen or dramatic balance lose their urgency, and the question of whether, in fact, the thing is being well-executed takes on an embarrassing irrelevance. After all, we're talking about a play with precedent here...