Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harder for his laughs. While a neophyte in his 20s, he laid down a 15-year plan for success. Today, at 38, he has not only met his timetable but has bettered it. As in his early years, his absolute concentration on his business gives him a preoccupied, almost aloof air. Even when relaxing, he is studying people for situations or thinking up funny lines. His whole effort is bent toward making each show "my best shot...
Miami has Place Kicker Garo Yepremian, the highest scorer in the N.F.L. Dallas has Tom Landry, aloof, cerebral, technical. Miami has Don Shula, driving, hard-nosed, elemental...
...three years during the past half decade. The foundation grants and federal aid that Shedd had obtained to launch his lively ideas were cut back by the recession. In addition, his reforms provoked opposition from the entrenched school bureaucracy, which did not take to Shedd's often aloof and highhanded manner. Although his new programs were not designed exclusively for the long-neglected problems of black students, few of the innovations percolated into the classrooms of low and middle-income white children, whose parents are Philadelphia's voting majority...
Only the Beginning. A self-effacing, unemotional and uncommonly aloof man, Brosio is expected to leave for Moscow before mid-November to "explore" the situation, accompanied by a lean staff of no more than four or five technical experts. His mandate, as one NATO official put it, is "to taste the wine, but not to drink it"-to ask questions about Soviet intentions but not to negotiate. Though the Kremlin considers Brosio a hard-lining cold warrior because of his long service to NATO, he has stressed the importance of détente. "The Soviet Union views détente...
...Senator Edward Kennedy assailed his Administration's ineffectiveness in securing the release of Hanoi-held U.S. prisoners of war at a Washington meeting of P.O.W. relatives. Fully aware of their growing impatience, Nixon boldly went to the meeting (see story, page 21). Nor was Nixon willing to remain aloof from international complaints about his new trade and monetary moves; he gave a White House reception for finance ministers and international bankers attending a monetary conference in Washington. He defended his steps and promised that they do not mean that the U.S. is headed down a path toward economic isolationism...