Allen Pinkett should have shown more tact regarding what he said, how he said it, and when he said it.

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That is hasty: Britain is still a place where snap judgments are made about shoes, accents and haircuts and where the ripe vowels and superior biographies that distinguish many senior Tories might, with more tact, be turned against them.

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Now that officials project a days-long power outage, building management strongly suggests that residents evacuate to more in-tact and electrified parts of the metro area. (Other nearby residential buildings are doing the same.) The dark stairwells of the high rise, illuminated by glow sticks, hold families traipsing up and down as many as 34 flights of stairs.

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But merging will require tact, since Paribas's value resides far more in its investment bankers than in other assets.

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And although he intersperses candour with tact, assuring us that the young Saudi princes are smarter and more durable than we tend to think, frankness wins out in the end.

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Robin Cook has gone from being a cold war Soviet apologist, to an even more ridiculous figure, strutting his stuff on the international stage, without reticence, subtlety or tact.

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