Word: acumen
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...EARLY MODERN ERA of the Post was made possible by a grant from Meyer, about whom we learn little, except that he was a shrewd businessman. The highest exercise of his financial acumen came on St. Patrick's Day, 1953, when, according to Bray, he and his son closed "one of the truly great deals in American newspaper history. They set the company on the course of empire." What they did was buy the competition, the Times-Herald, a move that a less sympathetic chronicler would call monopolistic, not brilliant. Without competition, prosperity for the paper and its owners...
...proficiency or dramatic virtuosity. The play demands total ensemble work not just for the sake of the number of major roles it contains but for the revelation of its multiple meanings, and the American Repertory Theater (ART) provides a group of performers with vocal skill, physical agility, and intellectual acumen. They present in transcendent clarity--sometimes in neon signs--the question at the heart of Shakespeare's play: how to create marital tranquility out of the irrational workings of love. Most of the refinements and elaborations director Alvin Epstein introduces serve not to obscure but to subtilize the issue...
...distance runner is essential to the conduct of the presidency," says Leonard Garment, a New York attorney who used to be an aide to President Nixon. "It's a job that calls for that kind of stamina." Yet other qualities may be slighted by the primary process: experience, acumen, political leadership, an ability to organize coalitions and to work out compromises. Says Mike Thompson, a Republican state committeeman in Florida: "Franklin Roosevelt couldn't be nominated today. A Bruce Jenner could beat...
...when Trudeau announced his resignation November 20, he startled those who felt he would attempt to exact revenge for his only political loss. But Trudeau has an unparalleled political acumen, as anyone will concede--the debate continues over the question of whether his motives are high-minded or underhanded...
...Lesley officials have as many plans and as much real estate acumen as the best of their rivals at Harvard...