Word: tact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quotation, a technique to which the report objects): "Our students have an almost eerie ability to identify rock groups on hearing a few bars of the music. They know much about sports. They can make exquisite discriminations about the relative merits of various commercials on TV." We appreciate his tact; after all, Marius might simply have called us stupid...
...professors would increase, giving the junior professors (and maybe some full professors, too) more motivation than they currently have to make teaching, course development and interaction with students prime concerns. Compiling and analyzing information about junior professors is less attractive than joining professors on powerful committees. But the former tact may actually yield results...
...Senate majority leader during Reagan's first term, the diminutive Tennessean pushed Reagan's tax and spending cuts through the upper chamber with tact and skill, earning the respect even of the President's opponents. Though he is too moderate and conciliatory to please Reagan's hard-right fans for long, the choice of Baker drew wide initial praise. Democratic Senator James Sasser, Baker's onetime colleague from Tennessee, praised the new chief of staff's "pragmatism and reasonableness" and called the selection of Baker a "stroke of genius...
With the victory, the Crimson snapped a two-game losing streak and kept in tact its perfect home mark in '86-'87, raising its overall record to 5-6 on the year...
...rest of the building, natural light is Aulenti's main subject. Her use of it reaches its peak of tact and skill in the galleries for impressionism and postimpressionism at the top of the museum, fitted into the dead space between facade and vault. This parade of rooms, with its 30 or so Van Goghs, its nearly 40 Cezannes, its Monets and Manets and Renoirs, its superb array of Degas bronzes, is bound to be the popular core of the museum, and Aulenti was right to put it up high, closest to the light. "Light is impressionism," she says...