Word: aloofness
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Like Father. Envious competitors consider Bergesen aloof and insufferably vain, not the least for his habit of walking the three miles from his suburban home to his Oslo office each morning, while a chauffeured limousine trails behind. Nine years ago, the rivals got an unexpected recruit, when his son Berge Sigval Bergesen repeated a bit of family history: he broke with the family firm, railing that father found it "impossible to retire." Now 48, Berge has his own charter operation called Sigship. Warily staying away from tankers, he specializes in bulk carriers - many of them also leviathans in their class...
Williams seems incapable of anger or depression. He talks softly and easily in private conversation, smiles often, and listens courteously with apparent interest. There is an aloof informality about him, creating an air of casual righteousness. He tends to sit impassively and listen, occasionally murmuring a reply. Williams talks with amusement about himself, but at any mention of criminal law, he quickly becomes animated...
...underdeveloped nations they compete bitterly for markets for their copra and sugar, rice and rubber. India, Pakistan and Burma have shown no interest in the hustle and bustle around them. Indonesia, still in the shakedown stage after its anti-Communist upheaval, is only warily beginning to participate. Cambodia stands aloof, although Premier Sihanouk, who likes to root for the winning team, has lately taken steps to bleach some of the pro-Peking coloration out of his government...
...depends not only on the strength of the plan worked out by the City but also the amount of support it commands within the community -- the Library Corporation, local businessmen and residents, and the University. In Cambridge, such plans are often worked out in a vacuum; private interests stand aloof and, when the plan is released, size it up from their own perspective. If they dislike it, they pounce on it both privately and publicly. The results often satisfy...
Harvard officials have stayed aloof from the entire controversy. At first glance, the University doesn't have much to worry about. Not many patents are applied for here--a survey a few years ago uncovered only ten major patents in the two previous decades...