Word: acumen
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...India's states along linguistic lines. Many thought the worst was over three weeks ago, when India's Parliament passed a bill to create a huge new bilingual State of Bombay, to include both the Gujaratis and the Marathas. The Marathas envy and resent the Gujaratis' acumen and prosperity. As for the Gujaratis, they would be heavily outnumbered by people they consider inferior. Rioting broke out in Ahmedabad...
...from having punched too many time clocks in peace and war. The mother, Margarethe (Moe for short), is openly carrying on an illicit affair with a boarder young enough to be her son, and all the older children know it. Daughter Katie has the instincts, if not the business acumen, of a prostitute−and a two-year-old illegitimate son to show for it. But it is Hank, a Neanderthal 18-year-old, around whom the family and its impending tragedy pivot. A stint in his father's boots as the family's wartime disciplinarian, plus...
Dean Acheson, in A Democrat Looks at His Party, offers not so much a policy as a prologue to a policy. As Secretary of State at the height of the Cold War's intensity, Acheson uses his wit and acumen to analyse the underlying assumptions of U.S. foreign affairs under President Truman...
...Joyce published his last and longest book, however, Levin could not resist penning a review called "On First Looking Into Finnegans Wake." He was one of the first critics courageous enough to probe the obscurities of Joyce's "monomyth" and Joyce himself praised the review highly for its critical acumen...
...Harvard, however, that few undergraduates are self-confident enough to approach a pocket book vendor or financially successful enough to blow 35 cents on a gamble. It might be propitious (pro-pish-us) then, to mention the high points of the text perceptively (pur-sep-tiv-Ice) and with acumen (a-kyoo...