Word: acumen
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...across the ocean is Sotheby's lower commission-only 10% on art and antiques and 15% on books and manuscripts-compared with P-B's 15% to 22% , made necessary by higher U.S. costs. They were tempted even more by the higher bids generated by the business acumen and showmanship of Sotheby Chairman Peter Cecil Wilson, 51, known in the auction world as "The Fastest Gavel in the West...
Harvard's endowment is controlled by the Corporation, a body chosen to manage--and finance--an educational institution. Its members are not elected for their political acumen. It is not meant to be a representative legislative assembly. The President and Fellows should not be asked to become political seers...
...little experience of statecraft, and is noted, in a Western diplomat's words, for "thinking with her heart." Her foes predicted disaster in 1959 when she was elected president of the flabby, faction-torn Congress Party. But in her whirlwind year on the job, Indira showed considerable political acumen...
Much business give and take goes into the manner in which directors are picked. A bank almost certainly seeks executives of several large corporations, expecting to help handle their companies' accounts. Corporations, on the other hand, frequently seek out bankers not only for their business acumen but for the support they could give should the company encounter financial need...
...method in Humanities is extremely appealing. But to most of those involved with the humanities, it is as important that a student should have read some of the great books and ideas of Western civilization as that he should be able to read them with a particular sort of acumen...