Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite his aloof style, Roemer tried hard to deal with Louisiana's problems. He started to clean up the environment, raised teachers' salaries, created trust funds for transportation and wetlands and sought to revise the tax structure. He managed to improve the state's bond rating and pushed through new campaign-finance laws that have drastically curbed the multimillion-dollar electoral extravaganzas of the past. Elected as a Democrat, he was a prize convert to the Republican Party when he defected last March. But Roemer may have moved too fast and too abruptly for his state...
...consistent force in American politics: class. In office after office last week, informal polls often turned up the same split: secretaries sided with Thomas while their male and female bosses took Hill's side. When J.C. Alvarez came forward as a witness for the judge and described Hill as aloof and ambitious, she played a real-life version of Tess, the secretary pitted against a Wall Street shrew in the movie Working Girl. Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for George Bush, calls it a division "between clever people who talk loudly in restaurants and those who seat them." However they...
Overall, the stucco and cleft-cut stone will give the Getty a nice grittiness lacking in Meier's previous work. Instead of the usual aloof Meieresque facades, the buildings are full of verve; they are even a bit manic. Instead of sleek uninterrupted planes of metal and glass, there are balconies, loggias and shady brise-soleils. If the new Getty becomes a lively, civilized place, it will be because, for all the white-on-white elegance, it is not pristine and hermetic, not another gorgeous monolith. The rugged terrain and Meier's good planning sense have dictated a dense urban...
...Africanist Congress and the Azanian People's Organization. Now, seeing the danger of fragmenting the antiapartheid camp, the A.N.C. has sought to bring the others into a "patriotic front." But the congress's performance has scared off those whites who were generally sympathetic. "Many have decided to remain aloof," says Jan van Eck, a Member of Parliament for the liberal Democratic Party, "because they are unsure exactly what the A.N.C. offers...
...Aloof and sometimes quirky, Tsongas is a man who wastes scant time on political heartiness. "He gives little feedback," says one of his top aides. Escaping political orthodoxy appeals to him. The higher a person's standing, staff members say, the more likely Tsongas is to ignore him. He is incapable of rudeness, but there are glints of social defiance in his nature. In nine years in Washington, Tsongas says, he never held a dinner party. The Senator needs few people aside from his wife, Niki, and three daughters, Ashley, 17, Katina, 13, and Molly, 9. He is fanatically devoted...