Word: tactfulness
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...York, was less appreciated when she returned to Houston in 1993 to take a job with Enron. Her mother noted the new attitude. And while Watkins rose quickly through the ranks and was thought of as whip smart, she earned an equally well-deserved reputation for lack of tact. Poised and pleasant with clients, Watkins often barreled right through her colleagues. They nicknamed her the "Buzz Saw." One boss pulled her aside and said, "Sherron, you kind of cut people off at the jugular. There they are bleeding at the neck, and then you decide it was rude...
Thus, he took a different tact...
...more buildings rise across the river in Allston, Harvard must reconsider its tact. Bullying is not only obnoxious, but ineffective in securing the approval and cooperation of local town councils. Unlike students, who come and go as the years pass, the residents are here for good and we ought to treat them well. But the residents, too, must end their childish protest politics. It is time to end the schoolyard bickering and establish a tradition of cordial friendship between neighbors...
There are many things Ivy League marching bands are known for. Tact isn’t one of them...
...parliamentary majority in 1997 elections, won by a previously floundering coalition of leftist parties united under Socialist Party leader Lionel Jospin. Aware of France's dimming economic outlook, Chirac and Raffarin are now opting for caution over collision?and have backed down when their measures have generated opposition. The tact is apparently working: approval ratings for Chirac and Raffarin are holding steady at a solid 53% and 58%, respectively...