Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Experience 1, charisma...
Ultimately, the race came down to a choice between the old guard and the young challenger, the center and the slightly left-of-center, experience and charisma. Jenkins won comfortably with 56% of the vote. He will become Prime Minister if the Social Democrats and their Liberal allies win the national election that is expected to take place late next year...
Despite his charisma, and apart from his prayer chain, Rios Montt has no firm power base. In time, that deficiency could cause him trouble. Already some of the young officers who put him into power are chafing over his seizure of the presidency last week and his incessant moralizing. "We made this coup d'état to do away with continuismo, "complains one lieutenant. "Now this man is taking us back to the situation that led us to mount the coup in the first place." in the first place." - By Spencer Davidson...
John Paul's charisma exuded its warmth in the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick at St. George's Cathedral later that afternoon. There, 4,000 ailing, disabled or dying parishioners watched in gratitude as the Pope personally administered the holy oil to many hands and foreheads of the seriously...
...Fairbank's stations in life appropriately dominate Chinabound providing wonderful insights into his development of the East Asian studies program at Harvard. But watching Fairbank's career untold, one is led to feel that this man has more going for him than brilliance. He's got good luck and charisma-the kind seen perhaps once in a billion times. He had the good professional fortune of being in China as information coordinator of the U.S. during the storms 1940s...