Word: aloofness
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...Because it "isn't profitable" to send girls home, says a disgruntled former agency counselor, "it's always, 'Well, find them another home.' " Becky and T.J. McManamy of Charlotte, who went through seven au pairs in four years -- two good, five bad -- say they let go of Lindsey, an aloof Briton, after she told them, "Your children are not safe with me." When the McManamys tried to pass that disturbing remark on to AuPairCare -- first by phone, then by certified letter -- the agency didn't respond. DuToit now says the McManamys misinterpreted Lindsey's remark...
Foley has had to match that spending, in part to counter an impression that he has grown aloof from the lives of people who raise cattle and run hardware stores in towns like Dusty, Dishman and Spangle. It is hard for many in the district to identify with a Congressman whose fine dark suits come from Brooks Brothers and whose tastes in entertainment run to modern art and ballet. Foley's straight-arrow image also has suffered since the furor last year over $100,000 in gains that he pocketed during four years of buying initial public offerings of stock...
...Windsors," whichever you prefer--Maj. James Hewitt reveals that he "did it with Di" (in Time's elegant phrasing). Charles, ever-ready to retaliate in the Fleet Street mud-sling, contends that he never loved Diana, and felt forced to marry her by his overbearing, emotionally-traumatizing father and aloof mother...
...image of Romney, an articulate, well-groomed family man, contrasts sharply with that of the aloof, gray-haired senator. That basic difference could be decisive on election...
Hoping to head of any town-gown tensions, Rowe has also spent time with city officials. He has met with Cambridge's aloof and occasionally temperamental mayor, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, who criticized Harvard at several points during the 1993 city council campaign...