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noun
Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
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In February 2011, it sold the eight-story plant and adjoining parking lot to Acumen, a firm that specializes in adapting industrial properties for new uses.
It's an idea that makes sense to Acumen, whose very DNA was built on blurring the lines between the nonprofit and for-profit worlds.
"We attribute gains to acumen when they are the product of luck, and attribute losses to ill fortune when they are often the product of stupidity or inattention".
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A university leader also needs to an adroit politician – able to work effectively with policy makers and to have the acumen to manage shifting political tides.
If this is supposed to be a testament to political acumen, it doesn't sway me.
The algorithm correctly identified ventilator-associated pneumonia, with a positive predictive value of 87%, and was concluded to be a useful adjunct to clinical acumen.
Now, he says his colleagues need to apply that acumen to their business.
What kind of culture are you trying to foster at Acumen? A. At Acumen we try to wear our values on our sleeves.
While it would follow that Muslim health professionals or pharmacists with diabetes themselves would be more knowledgeable due to personal acumen, the number of diametric respondents in our sample were too small to make such comparisons.
Everything, however, attests to visual acumen and thinking.
While doctors are certainly smart, their medical ability does not necessarily translate to financial acumen.
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