This was where mikael hed 's commercial nous - a business degree from tulane university in new orleans and years working for his entrepreneur father - paid off .
Spencer had the nous and the knowledge to turn his observation into innovation ; only an expert on bacteria would have been ready to see the significance of fleming 's stray spore .
Bureaucrats with little investment nous are in charge .
在其位的,是那些缺乏投资常识的官僚。
Perhaps that shows a lack of public-relations nous .
也许是因为缺少公共关系常识。
But on balance , the summation in his epilogue is probably correct : philosophical self-examination is not a reliable source of happiness or political nous .
总之,他结尾处的概括应该是正确的:哲学意义上的自我检视不是快乐和政治理性的可靠来源。
This ' triangulation ' is the combination of hardheaded data analysis , coupled with business nous .