Word: tactfulness
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This year Columbia tried a new tact: it hired a tough, new coach...
...continue to press its allies to bring export standards into line with the full-scope safeguard concept. That may take time and tact. Says former I.A.E.A. Official Fischer: "There is still suspicion in Western Europe of U.S. motives in pressing for full-scope safeguards." Pressure from Washington is sometimes seen by Europeans as a ploy to improve the U.S. competitive position. Nonetheless, Fischer notes, there has been a "very distinct change" in French export practices over the past decade. U.S. pressure has played a role in that...
Jane McHugh has earned the tag "Tact and Decorum", or "T&D" for short. "Jane has a habit of saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time--in a cute way," Wilson explains...
...much pain as enlightenment. In a typical passage, Heaney, who grew up in Northern Ireland, bitterly remembers the Catholic ghetto, and "how quick I was to know my place." In another, he faces the ghost of his cousin Colum, killed in the sectarian violence. "You confused evasion and artistic tact," the murdered man tells him. "The Protestant who shot me through the head/ I accuse directly, but indirectly, you . . . for the way you whitewashed ugliness and drew/ the lovely blinds of the Purgatorio/ and saccharined my death with morning...
Further more, I have it on good authority that these pretenders have, in tact gone out and won seven of their first eight games and escaped with a tie from Cornell's Ivnah Rink, home of Harvard hockey hatred in the Western Hemisphere...