Word: tactfulness
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...ongoing spat between Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence H. Summers is yet another example of how utterly out of touch members of academia are with reality (Editorial, “A Little Tact Goes a Long...
...hang. Star Wars skeptics look to Powell to apply the brakes, to make the true believers see reason before they blithely abandon the treaty and disturb global nuclear stability. Or if missile defense is to go ahead, it needs someone to make its case with reason, firmness and tact, backed by unimpeachable authority--someone, in other words, like the Secretary of State his friends thought Powell would be. But so far, he seems to be going along for the ride...
...hang. Star Wars skeptics look to Powell to apply the brakes, to make the true believers see reason before they blithely abandon the treaty and disturb global nuclear stability. Or if missile defense is to go ahead, it needs someone to make its case with reason, firmness and tact, backed by unimpeachable authority?someone, in other words, like the Secretary of State his friends thought Powell would be. But so far, he seems to be going along for the ride...
...smart enough to devise solutions and rich enough to carry them out-especially since Europe is key to its plans to become a global player. Michael Poynor, retail director at London consultancy COBA Group, says Wal-Mart could achieve the scale it needs by taking a pan-European tact and scooping up another big chain in a third country. But that will take more time and money. And investors may go along for the ride for only as long as the good times continue to roll at a double-digit pace...
Bruised, battered and frustrated, the losing team inevitably searches for someone to blame in the face of an unexpected defeat. To place the onus on one's own shortcomings is to lose face; to credit the other team for a better performance is to admit inferiority. The most foolproof tact is to, instead, blame the referee--for a bad call on a particularly key play, for consistently favoring the other team or for simply being, as school kids are apt to whine in gym class, "not fair...