Naseer Ahmad's fortunes turned after he took an innovative home mortgage loan from a Pakistani affiliate of the Acumen Fund: For a $175 down payment and monthly repayments of $6 to $8 for the next half-dozen or so years, he got to own a plot of land and start construction of a two-room home from which he launched a weaving business.
This success means he averages a trophy every 34 games over his career, a staggering record, with as much down to preparation as tactical acumen.
Then there is "Kizu," or "Scar," her book about an international bond saleswoman who avenges the suicide of her lover by bringing down a century-old Japanese bank, using her market acumen and -- these books are, after all, thrillers -- sex.
Gloucester clung on for victory, with Laidlaw's playmaking acumen central to their' clever tactics to run down the clock.
Much of that can be put down to Paul's combination of single-mindedness and tactical acumen, traits which make the senator a serious contender in the emerging – and wide-open – race for the Republican nomination.
When pondering why this might be, an academic from St Andrew's University, Scotland, suggested it might be down primarily to a lack of business acumen amongst academia.
Sifting a long list of more than a hundred books down to one deserving winner requires more literary acumen than simply knowing what one likes.
As the face of many a world brand, from aftershave to hair gel to perfume, and the body of fashion brands down to his underwear, Beckham has used commercial acumen to earn, it is estimated, at least $190 million.
During two long walks on which I perhaps foolishly peered down at the units' L.C.D. displays rather than at where I was going, the Acumen JogMate was the only pedometer that never missed a step.
Female executives must play down any overt signs of sexiness for fear that it will cloud over their business acumen.
