Word: fingerspitzengefuhl
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...accept international tutelage than they used to be, which comes as something of a shock to others. Yet Germans could do more to ease the transition. "Little things add up," said Angelika Volle of the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn. "What Germany needs right now is Fingerspitzengefuhl, a delicate, tactful approach...
...Middle East? We give them a political risk assessment." Kissinger's advice to prospective clients is blunt: "If they are looking for hot tips, they are not going to get them. We can be useful in strategy, middle-term decisions." What they get, says Eagleburger, is "Henry's fingerspitzengefuhl," his instinctive feel for a situation...
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