Word: tactfulness
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...professors would increase, giving the junior professors (and maybe some full professors, too) more motivation than they currently have to make teaching, course development and interaction with students prime concerns. Compiling and analyzing information about junior professors is less attractive than joining professors on powerful committees. But the former tact may actually yield results...
...Senate majority leader during Reagan's first term, the diminutive Tennessean pushed Reagan's tax and spending cuts through the upper chamber with tact and skill, earning the respect even of the President's opponents. Though he is too moderate and conciliatory to please Reagan's hard-right fans for long, the choice of Baker drew wide initial praise. Democratic Senator James Sasser, Baker's onetime colleague from Tennessee, praised the new chief of staff's "pragmatism and reasonableness" and called the selection of Baker a "stroke of genius...
With the victory, the Crimson snapped a two-game losing streak and kept in tact its perfect home mark in '86-'87, raising its overall record to 5-6 on the year...
Although medical evidence shows that AIDS is not transmitted by casual con tact, fear of infection has caused widespread and usually unwarranted prejudice against even those merely suspected of having the disease. Thus many of the AIDS legal cases, like Shuttleworth's, are based on claims of discrimination -- in employment, health care, insurance, housing, child custody and schooling. And where the law appears to be heading in these disputes is increasingly clear. Courts and agencies in at least 20 states have decided that AIDS victims are protected by existing state laws that prohibit discrimination against the handicapped...
...rest of the building, natural light is Aulenti's main subject. Her use of it reaches its peak of tact and skill in the galleries for impressionism and postimpressionism at the top of the museum, fitted into the dead space between facade and vault. This parade of rooms, with its 30 or so Van Goghs, its nearly 40 Cezannes, its Monets and Manets and Renoirs, its superb array of Degas bronzes, is bound to be the popular core of the museum, and Aulenti was right to put it up high, closest to the light. "Light is impressionism," she says...