Word: tact
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...addition, she taught English as a second language in Chinatown and worked in alumni relations at the Business School. where Wilson said Hwang "responded to alumni with great tact and diplomacy...
...should students walk the fine line between tact and treason--speaking their mind without offending someone they may have to live next door to, eat with or sit by in class...
...Commencement Speaker for that year? No poll was conducted to my knowledge, but I'd venture a guess: not many. Seldom has such myopia been demonstrated by an entire staff (minus three) of supposedly intelligent journalists. This essay demonstrates a lack of education, not to mention a lack of tact...
...helicopter flew him into Tel Aviv Thursday night to pay a condolence call at Leah Rabin's apartment. Arafat told Mrs. Rabin that her husband was a "hero of peace" and a "dear friend." She responded that "Yitzhak saw in you, Mr. Arafat, a partner in making peace." If tact forbade either to mention what both well knew--that Rabin had brought himself only with the utmost reluctance to shake Arafat's hand--well, good manners are not the least important ingredient in peacemaking...
Getting ATF agents to open up about their lives and work required unusual tact and tenacity. "There was a great fear of retaliation by the ATF management," he says. After two months of travel, scores of interviews and a stack of documents piled knee high in his office, he delivered a penetrating look at an agency at war not with the militias but with itself...