Word: tactfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boss. Nowadays this is usually done with tact-but originally it took toughness as well. Shortly after he took over in 1964, Barzel called a caucus of the party's 240 deputies and announced that if one more squabble erupted in public, the party could consider his resignation. "Everybody looked at Konrad Adenauer and the other older leaders, waiting for challenge," recalls one deputy. "It did not come. Young Barzel walked out of there the boss...
Even for Indonesia, things were getting a bit out of hand. The generals decided that the time for tact was past. Machine-gun-toting troops crossed the lush lawn of the Merdeka to arrest Su bandrio and 14 leftist Ministers, reportedly flung them into the grimy guardhouse at Djakarta garrison headquarters. Then Suharto announced over the Djakarta radio, which he had also seized, that he had done it "in the name of President Sukarno," to prevent the Ministers "from becoming the victims of the Indonesian people, who are becoming restless and uncontrolled...
...ability to raised crushed spirits has not gone unnoticed. "She's some-one of extraordinary tact," says Kalstone, referring also to her dual job as Hughes's personal secretary...
...businesswomen make ever deeper inroads into Thailand's commerce, they exercise great tact and diplomacy in dealing with their men. They take the position, in fact, that behind every successful businesswoman is a loving helpmate...
Even if Sargent's words represent more than political tact, there are good reasons for believing that the DPW is intent on selecting the Brook-line-Elm Street route--the one that would wipe out 1000 to 1500 families and run right next to Central Square. First, it has been the route long championed by his agency. Second, plans for this route are farther along than for any other. And third, any other realistic alternative would run along the fringe of the M.I.T. campus; the political power of M.I.T., a venus flytrap for federal research contracts, is latent, but great...