Word: tact
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...participate in an online survey which attempts to gauge what students might want out of an Allston campus. We are pleased with the new approach; Kirby finally appears to understand that asking for student input instead of presuming to know what students want is a far more diplomatic tact. Still, a fundamental question was missing from the survey: whether or not there should be undergraduate housing in Allston. The absence of that question has left many students puzzled and worried that undergraduate housing in Allston is a foregone conclusion...
...corporate off-site, including a mix of family education, leisure activities, tours, free time, door prizes and meals for the masses. Indeed, getting 50, 75 or 100 people together--and meeting their dietary needs--is no easy task. It takes the strategic skills of a general, the tact of a diplomat and the skin of a rhino...
...public who is eligible to win prime contracts, funded by $18.6 billion of U.S. tax money, to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and supply its new army. Only firms from supportive nations can bid, which rules out those from antiwar countries like Russia, Germany, France and Canada. In its tact, timing and logic, the memo is a disaster. It was released just as the Bush Administration was launching an international effort to restructure Iraq's debt, much of it held by the excluded nations. Its reasoning is sophomoric and its language, in the words of one diplomat, a sort of "diseased...
...Chandis took an unusual tact toward nullifying McMenemy, as the two jumped from the ground screaming and shoving and were red-carded for their actions...
Like a prime Sturges comedy, this one has plenty of ripe character parts. Cedric the Entertainer is a private eye who's all tenacity, no tact ("You want tact, call a tactician"). Paul Adelstein serves nobly as the comic foil; Geoffrey Rush as a blithe, then ferocious cuckold; Julia Duffy as a rich divorce; Jonathan Hadary as a purring aristocrat-for-hire; Irwin Keyes as a hit man with a deadly wheeze...