When a CEO is done in, often it's simply by a lack of business acumen that eventually catches up with him.

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In these four periods of rising rates, managers had the acumen to navigate troubled waters by various techniques of managing bond types, sector allocation, duration, maturity, credit quality, country, and currency.

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Joel and two other business-minded do-gooders portrayed in the film were some of the fellows sent overseas for 10 months by the Acumen Fund, a non-profit venture fund aimed at tackling poverty.

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Here, Plaintiffs did not establish what percentage of the class was comprised of inhabitants of urban centers and rural areas, persons who did not complete high school, as well as high school and college graduates, those who are impoverished fortuitously and those who are of modest means by choice or avocation, or persons with some financial acumen versus those without any.

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